Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: normal Hi,
when I have a package which contains a symlink to a conffile which is in turn marked as a conffile itself, dpkg creates a package that does not install if the link file does already exist: $ ls -al /etc/link* /etc/target* ls: /etc/link*: No such file or directory ls: /etc/target*: No such file or directory $ echo "this is the contents of the link file in the file system" | sudo tee /etc/link this is the contents of the link file in the file system $ cat debian/target this is the target file from the package $ cat debian/conffiles etc/link $ cat debian/links etc/target etc/link $ cat debian/install debian/target etc $ # <build package> $ sudo dpkg --install ../*.deb Selecting previously deselected package hello-debhelper. (Reading database ... 23189 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hello-debhelper (from .../hello-debhelper_2.2-2_i386.deb) ... Preparing to replace hello-debhelper 2.2-2 (using .../hello-debhelper_2.2-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement hello-debhelper ... Setting up hello-debhelper (2.2-3) ... dpkg: error processing hello-debhelper (--install): unable to change ownership of new dist conffile `/etc/link.dpkg-new': No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: hello-debhelper $ ls -al /etc/link* /etc/target* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 Apr 28 08:59 /etc/link lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 28 09:00 /etc/link.dpkg-new -> target -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41 Apr 28 08:49 /etc/target.dpkg-new $ A .diff.gz for the modified hello-debhelper package is attached so that you can reproduce the issue. If symlink conffiles are not allowed (I didn't find any clause in Policy forbidding this), dpkg should not build the package. But, of course, it would be great if the symlink itself (not the file being pointed to) would be handled as conffile. This would greatly ease providing transition links, and prevent bugs like #420528 from happening. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dpkg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
