Package: git Version: 1:1.7.7-1 Followup-For: Bug #645005 Hi,
I was also confronted to the problem. I slightly modified the postinst script to skip the whole thing if the version provided as argument is an empty string. I attached the patch to this mail. Cheers, Simon
>From 1b7039ad6c0e59f3e2ea644e39cd7854154309f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Chopin <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:28:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] postinst: Fix fresh install contrib/hooks cleaning The postinstall script now only attempts the removal if the version string given as argument $2 is not empty, i.e. if it is in fact an upgrade. --- debian/git.postinst | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/git.postinst b/debian/git.postinst index 8cf7ad3..332d77c 100644 --- a/debian/git.postinst +++ b/debian/git.postinst @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ fi # 1.7.7-1 replaces /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/hooks with a symlink, # but dpkg doesn't do so on package upgrade -if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt '1:1.7.7-1' && +if test -n "$2" && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt '1:1.7.7-1' && test -d /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/hooks; then rmdir /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/hooks && ln -s ../../../git-core/contrib/hooks \ -- 1.7.7
