Your message dated Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:52:37 +0000 with message-id <e1aw89n-0007lk...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#814646: fixed in vlc 2.2.2-4 has caused the Debian Bug report #814646, regarding vlc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE, /usr/share/bug/PACKAGE to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: vlc Version: 2.2.2-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + libvlccore-dev vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-zvbi libvlc5 kde-runtime kde-runtime-dbg 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: jessie -> sid jessie -> stretch 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: https://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 https://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 1.17.14) to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript. Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control. See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): 1m58.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev/control (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/bug/libvlccore8/control (libvlccore8) /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev/presubj (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/bug/libvlccore8/presubj (libvlccore8) /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/copyright (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/copyright (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 3m6.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth/control (vlc-plugin-fluidsynth) != /usr/share/bug/vlc-nox/control (vlc-nox) /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth -> vlc-nox /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth/presubj (vlc-plugin-fluidsynth) != /usr/share/bug/vlc-nox/presubj (vlc-nox) /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth -> vlc-nox (similarily for all the other vlc-plugin-* packages) 2m9.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/changelog.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/copyright (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/copyright (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: vlc Source-Version: 2.2.2-4 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of vlc, 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 814...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> (supplier of updated vlc package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:21:32 +0100 Source: vlc Binary: libvlc-dev libvlc5 libvlccore-dev libvlccore8 vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-zvbi vlc-plugin-samba Architecture: source all Version: 2.2.2-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> Description: libvlc-dev - development files for libvlc libvlc5 - multimedia player and streamer library libvlccore-dev - development files for libvlccore libvlccore8 - base library for VLC and its modules vlc - multimedia player and streamer vlc-data - Common data for VLC vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support) vlc-plugin-fluidsynth - FluidSynth plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-jack - Jack audio plugins for VLC vlc-plugin-notify - LibNotify plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-samba - Samba plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-sdl - SDL video and audio output plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-svg - SVG plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-zvbi - VBI teletext plugin for VLC Closes: 814258 814646 Changes: vlc (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium . * debian/patches/fix-translation.patch: Fix translation of Shortcuts. (Closes: #814258) * debian/*.maintscript: Switch from absolute to relative paths to better handle symlink chains. (Closes: #814646) Checksums-Sha1: df27967d37a44a4bdbbac4a99f6927f33b24cf90 5325 vlc_2.2.2-4.dsc fdfb3d9c78c1a89b3ffdf91d004813ded30576c5 60284 vlc_2.2.2-4.debian.tar.xz 0a042d24c27d7455dedab5c4d8b67c12d3dac1a9 5988780 vlc-data_2.2.2-4_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: dfddad32a588ec9ac37eb09ed6a8e4666f64f940a9ad86621821639e568e7957 5325 vlc_2.2.2-4.dsc 076b172d8c3235eca2bab1064d37f395431808d6851bcfdd2f8a26b255b4b50a 60284 vlc_2.2.2-4.debian.tar.xz 9d6f5f89c05098cffe67c5f78daa04ba613f06a3f270a088db48c0e6b2218ac5 5988780 vlc-data_2.2.2-4_all.deb Files: 34861f2264613126097799cf17089ebb 5325 video optional vlc_2.2.2-4.dsc af4f77819131006cb584873309e49c5b 60284 video optional vlc_2.2.2-4.debian.tar.xz 4ef429936f184e453a351bbbfdbc9e9b 5988780 video optional vlc-data_2.2.2-4_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWxMvlAAoJEGny/FFupxmTyXUQAMV/TpSMdPLYsIzxn/3A3h20 CXoqeJJyXEXcgNSxzec8DSRU1b2xtcVEFPMBxm2zp1WL/vY1KVoCdl0nq7N0rCAK 9z2j5c1DWwnVLIjouThy9xvG/wvwcUzKji4y3ffpdk7xCJuYBVlcS56BoFvETA1S CZ6ci8M+1v8YydtfyTXGgOtrkFhQfouMm+NkV1qNrki4xPNu1oSW6XPrdhQYQxDs b0dxt31eD5UKFV6Mr4w7BISmxkOMAWngzV1KFaOpgOBGiQ/jqETaFRF+68oOdGye in3FtrWVLqhA4E7OL8Affdc/2MNPCEX8cGvxTa02hD/z1H7umN/R7OzHOKWt554h HRZ7XA8F5Sm9WdTCmgAcHju1RjGshchp84hyQtQqwUjonsU+ELJoyk2IWz+HugRN xPZI6l5yHxYuA4bAsS87OVWtKN5DYCKeoxHiukJLZfpL6W4iZYGoE1ImSLDtlZRO bt1/p+YXT9P0Wn5FrIvOsrPe7mlc+FsyJFgqqeYYoSqsmiubZ6SHKIWlD34OVrBB w2DMHZ44wV79OFaxGch4LMg8bEJVbuDeWc0naVE4iYsjrFUOmJFay+v6boSYMLzV bHGh84scppCc5WUm5PNZHPi6bQxB1TNAQaALv9eiVaIXyBrVURjvwT/fyv1OAgki 6TAprl5UiAlcBfkcx8lf =pqyc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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