Your message dated Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:03:20 +0000
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and subject line Bug#875911: fixed in plplot 5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp2
has caused the Debian Bug report #875911,
regarding libqsastime-dev: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: libqsastime-dev
Version: 5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp1
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:
sid -> experimental
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 (scroll to the bottom...):
0m14.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev/changelog.Debian.gz (libqsastime-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime0/changelog.Debian.gz (libqsastime0:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev -> libqsastime0
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev/changelog.gz (libqsastime-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime0/changelog.gz (libqsastime0:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev -> libqsastime0
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev/copyright (libqsastime-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime0/copyright (libqsastime0:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libqsastime-dev -> libqsastime0
cheers,
Andreas
libqsastime-dev_5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp1.log.gz
Description: application/gzip
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: plplot
Source-Version: 5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
plplot, 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.
Ole Streicher <[email protected]> (supplier of updated plplot package)
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:26:16 +0200
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Version: 5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp2
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Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Science Team
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Ole Streicher <[email protected]>
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python-plplot - Python 2 support for PLplot, a plotting library
python-plplot-qt - Scientific plotting library (Python 2 Qt GUI)
python3-plplot - Python 3 support for PLplot, a plotting library
python3-plplot-qt - Scientific plotting library (Python 3 Qt GUI)
Closes: 875911 875913
Changes:
plplot (5.13.0+dfsg-1~exp2) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Fix CI test subdir name
* Merge patches from Ubuntu
* Convert symlinks from old packages to directories on upgrade
(Closes: #875911, #875913)
* Disable failing test x09ocaml
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