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

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 normal

>> This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
>>
>>   lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie -> stretch

>> 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

>> 12m46.1s ERROR: FAIL: debsums reports modifications inside the chroot:
>>   debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (from python-sip4-dbg package)

On 2015-06-21 18:20, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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?

oops, missed the small difference between python-qt4-dbg and
python-sip4-dbg :-)

Probably python-sip should add an unversioned Breaks: python-qt4-dbg to
ensure that the old broken transitional (?) package gets removed. I need
to check this in more detail, but right now my test machine is
unreachable - crashed or network problems.

Andreas