Your message dated Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:19:40 +0000
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and subject line Bug#768257: fixed in globus-authz 3.10-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #768257,
regarding libglobus-authz-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
to be marked as done.
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Package: libglobus-authz-doc
Version: 3.9-1
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files
over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other
packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a
symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty)
directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be
detected by dpkg.
This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
For /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE this may not be problematic as long as both
packages are installed, ship byte-for-byte identical files and are
upgraded in lockstep. But once one of the involved packages gets
removed, the other one will lose its documentation files, too,
including the copyright file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
For other overwritten locations anything interesting may happen.
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
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase
It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands
'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.2)
to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...):
1m30.7s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libglobus-authz-doc/changelog.Debian.gz (libglobus-authz-doc)
!= /usr/share/doc/libglobus-authz-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
(libglobus-authz-dev:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libglobus-authz-doc/copyright (libglobus-authz-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/libglobus-authz-dev/copyright (libglobus-authz-dev:amd64)
cheers,
Andreas
libglobus-authz-doc_3.9-1.log.gz
Description: application/gzip
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: globus-authz
Source-Version: 3.10-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
globus-authz, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mattias Ellert <[email protected]> (supplier of updated globus-authz
package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:43:57 +0100
Source: globus-authz
Binary: libglobus-authz0 libglobus-authz-dev libglobus-authz-doc
libglobus-authz-dbg
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 3.10-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Mattias Ellert <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Mattias Ellert <[email protected]>
Description:
libglobus-authz-dbg - Globus Toolkit - Globus authz library Debug Symbols
libglobus-authz-dev - Globus Toolkit - Globus authz library Development Files
libglobus-authz-doc - Globus Toolkit - Globus authz library Documentation Files
libglobus-authz0 - Globus Toolkit - Globus authz library
Closes: 768257
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globus-authz (3.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Properly handle symlink-to-dir conversion in doc package (Closes: #768257)
* Enable verbose tests
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