Hi Andreas, Andreas Beckmann, on 2021-03-28 21:26:08 +0200: > On 27/03/2021 22.43, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > There is however this upgrade path that I struggle to fix, note > > the missing --distupgrade-to-testdebs, which goes through the > > existing 0.17+dfsg-2 in Testing, and which is still broken: > > That's a stable2testing2sid test (-d buster -d bullseye -d sid) and you can > do that with --d-t-t, too. > (you could also use -d buster -d bullseye -d bullseye --d-t-t, yes, 2x -d > bullseye) > > The breakage is caused by by upgrading to the bullseye version, debsums says > > debsums: missing file > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables/css/dataTables.bootstrap.css (from > libjs-jquery-datatables package) > debsums: missing file > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables/css/dataTables.bootstrap.min.css > (from libjs-jquery-datatables package) [...] > debsums: missing file > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/Buttons/js/dataTables.buttons.js > (from libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions package) > debsums: missing file > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/Buttons/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js > (from libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions package) > > debsums is not entirely right, the files still exist (as in 'test -e'), > but have been replaced by dangling symlinks: > (do you want to file a bug against debsums for that?)
Thank you very much Andreas Beckmann for the detailed explanantion. I understand that a dangling link can be considered by the system as a missing file. But I agree this can be confusing, so I'm filing a wishlist item. > # ls -la /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables/css > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/Buttons/js > /usr/share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/Buttons/js: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 420 Mar 28 13:14 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 Mar 28 13:14 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 104 Feb 12 07:11 buttons.bootstrap.js -> > ../../../../../../../../../share/javascript/jquery-datatables-extensions/Buttons/js/buttons.bootstrap.js [...] > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 88 Feb 12 07:11 jquery.dataTables.min.css -> > ../../../../../../../../share/javascript/jquery-datatables/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css > > That can't be fixed on the r-cran-dt side alone. > But I'd consider it pretty bad (haven't seen overwrite problems > this way so far), as the files are actually destroyed (usually > they get overwritten with files with the same or similar content, > not symlinks). > Since the buggy package has reached testing, there are probably > people using testing that have the destroyed files. > > The fix should be pretty easy: both libjs-jquery-datatables and > libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions (from two different source > packages) need to add > Breaks: r-cran-dt (<< 0.17+dfsg-3~) > That will reinstall the destroyed files after upgrading to the fixed r-cran-dt > (r-cran-dt could bump its dependencies to the versions with the Breaks, > but that's primarily to prevent some partial upgrades with messed up files > and it could even introduce some upgrade unpack ordering fun). > > Can you take care of that? I was to file bugs to notify Debian Javascript Maintainers this evening, but I see Andreas Tille already uploaded the fix. Thanks Andreas Tille! Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org> Fingerprint: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da Sent from /dev/pts/2, please excuse my verbosity.
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