On 07/19/2015 04:38 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: gcom > Version: 0.32-2 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > > Hi,
Hi Andreas, Thank you so much for your bug report and all the details. [ ... ] > After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory. > > This was observed on the following upgrade paths: > > lenny -> squeeze -> ... [ ... ] > Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks > and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this. > See in particular the end of point 4 in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase I tried to find out what caused the problems but the package had a comgt.links file so the symlink should have been created and I'm pretty sure I verified that (but maybe not for lenny->squeeze). Or do you mean that the behavior of dpkg changed and that's why the symlink was not unpacked when using dpkg from squeeze? > But since this has been a transitional package since squeeze, > maybe it is easiest to just drop it and add unversioned Breaks+Replaces > against it to comgt to ensure the buggy package is removed on upgrades. Yes, that sounds like a great plan :) I will prepare a new package and also fix the open bugs. Best, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
