Bug#696071: libdv-bin: directory vs. symlink mess after squeeze => wheezy upgrade: /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: libdv-bin
Version: 1.0.0-4
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during an upgrade test with piuparts I noticed your package installs
files over an existing symlink, overwriting files from another package
in a way that is not detected by dpkg:

1m1.5s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
  /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin/changelog.Debian.gz != /usr/share/doc/libdv4/changelog.Debian.gz (libdv-bin)
  /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin/changelog.gz != /usr/share/doc/libdv4/changelog.gz (libdv-bin)
  /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin/copyright != /usr/share/doc/libdv4/copyright (libdv-bin)

Looks like /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin was a symlink in squeeze and is a
directory in wheezy.

libdv-bin.preinst should probably do something like

    test ! -L /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin || rm /usr/share/doc/libdv-bin


Please clean this up in wheezy.


Cheers,

Andreas
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