[R-pkg-team] Bug#985281: r-cran-dt: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/lib/R/site-library/DT/htmlwidgets/lib/datatables-extensions -> ../../../../../../share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:58:28PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Thank you very much Andreas Beckmann for the detailed
> explanantion.  I understand that a dangling link can be
> considered by the system as a missing file.  But I agree this
> can be confusing, so I'm filing a wishlist item.

Thanks.
 
> > The fix should be pretty easy: both libjs-jquery-datatables and
> > libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions (from two different source
> > packages) need to add
> >   Breaks: r-cran-dt (<< 0.17+dfsg-3~)
> > That will reinstall the destroyed files after upgrading to the fixed r-cran-dt
> > (r-cran-dt could bump its dependencies to the versions with the Breaks,
> > but that's primarily to prevent some partial upgrades with messed up files
> > and it could even introduce some upgrade unpack ordering fun).
> > 
> > Can you take care of that?
> 
> I was to file bugs to notify Debian Javascript Maintainers this
> evening, but I see Andreas Tille already uploaded the fix.

Both packages are uploaded and according unblock bugs to release.d.o
filed. :-)

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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