[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#886943: Bug#886943: libtelepathy-qt5-0: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Pino Toscano]

Hi Andreas,

In data giovedì 11 gennaio 2018 16:51:26 CET, Andreas Beckmann ha scritto:
> an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files
> over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other
> packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a
> symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty)
> directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be
> detected by dpkg.
> [...]
> It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands
> 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14)
> to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript.
> Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
> See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.

Could you help with a patch for this, or mention some other source that
needed to do the same changes?

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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