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and subject line Bug#905193: fixed in alot 0.7-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #905193,
regarding alot-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
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Package: alot-doc
Version: 0.7-1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
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:
stretch -> buster
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/#copyright-information
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/#details-of-unpack-phase-of-installation-or-upgrade
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...):
0m29.5s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api/commands.rst.txt (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api/commands.rst.txt (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api/contributing.rst.txt (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api/contributing.rst.txt (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api/crypto.rst.txt (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api/crypto.rst.txt (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api/database.rst.txt (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api/database.rst.txt (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/_sources/api/index.rst.txt (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/_sources/api/index.rst.txt (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
[...]
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/usage/modes/search.html (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/usage/modes/search.html (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/usage/modes/taglist.html (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/usage/modes/taglist.html (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/usage/modes/thread.html (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/usage/modes/thread.html (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/usage/signals.html (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/usage/signals.html (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/alot/html/usage/synopsis.html (alot-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/alot-doc/html/usage/synopsis.html (?)
/usr/share/doc/alot/html -> ../alot-doc/html
This is probably caused by a behavioral change of dh_installdocs
in debhelper compat level 11.
cheers,
Andreas
alot-doc_0.7-1.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: alot
Source-Version: 0.7-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
alot, 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 905...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com> (supplier of updated alot package)
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:59:45 -0700
Source: alot
Binary: alot alot-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 0.7-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team
<python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
Description:
alot - Text mode MUA using notmuch mail
alot-doc - Text mode MUA using notmuch mail - documentation
Closes: 880172 905193
Changes:
alot (0.7-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* d/alot-doc: Remove symlink from alot-doc package
* d/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.2.0
* d/patches: Update patches for lintian quilt-patch-missing-description
* d/source: Override lintian build-depends-on-python-sphinx-only
* d/scripts: Use symlink_to_dir to fix piuparts upgrade failure
* d/watch: Update github url to check the releases url
* d/patches: Apply patch for unicode char search bug. Closes: #880172
* d/scripts: Use single alot-doc.maintscript script
* d/alot-doc.maintscript: Fix symlink_to_dir package version. Closes: #905193
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