Bug#700779: python-gobject-dbg: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Michael Biebl]

On 17.02.2013 14:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...):
> 
> 0m58.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
>   /usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (python-gobject-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-gobject/changelog.Debian.gz (python-gobject)
>   /usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg/changelog.gz (python-gobject-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-gobject/changelog.gz (python-gobject)
>   /usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg/copyright (python-gobject-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-gobject/copyright (python-gobject)

Argh, those damn doc symlinks, I know why I hate them.

In squeeze, python-gobject-dbg was an actual package where
/usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg/ was symlinked to
/usr/share/doc/python-gobject/

In squeeze that symlink dance was updated for the new binary package name:

The relevant bits from squeeze's debian/rules:
       rm -rf debian/python-gobject-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg
       ln -sf python-gobject
debian/python-gobject-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-gobject-dbg

This was changed to
       rm -rf debian/python-gi-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-gi-dbg
       ln -sf python-gi debian/python-gi-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-gi-dbg

python-gobject-dbg is now a transitional package only which pulls in
python-gi-dbg and python-gobject-2-dbg.


Let's drop those stupid doc symlinks altogether.


Michael

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