[Python-modules-team] Bug#789452: python-qt4-dbg: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Dmitry Shachnev]

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Hi Andreas,

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 07:27:01 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: python-qt4-dbg
> Version: 4.11.3+dfsg-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
>
>   lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie -> stretch

[snip]

> 12m44.3s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
>   /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (python-sip4-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-sip4/changelog.Debian.gz (?)
>     /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg -> python-sip4
>   /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/copyright (python-sip4-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-sip4/copyright (?)
>     /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg -> python-sip4
>
> 12m46.1s ERROR: FAIL: debsums reports modifications inside the chroot:
>   debsums: no md5sums for libdb4.5
>   debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (from python-sip4-dbg package)
>   debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/copyright (from python-sip4-dbg package)

python-sip4-dbg existed only until squeeze, there is no such package in wheezy.
Also, it was built from sip4-qt3 source, there is no such source anymore.

What does this have to do with python-qt4-dbg package? How can we fix a bug
in a package that no longer exists for several releases?

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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