Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sunday, November 20, 2016 1:13:32 PM CST David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:06:17PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > You should also update your README.Debian and the descriptions with the > > > new p

Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-20 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:06:17PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > You should also update your README.Debian and the descriptions with the > > new paths and the transitional package as [...] > > Thanks. Updated README.Debian

Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > libgtest-dev contains in 1.8.0-1 a symlink to the new on-disk location. > That works for new installs, but doesn't on upgrades ??? a user ends up > with an empty /usr/src/gtest in that case. You need to work with > maintainersc

Bug#844721: libgtest-dev isn't replacing dir with symlink on upgrade

2016-11-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
Package: libgtest-dev Version: 1.8.0-1 Severity: serious Hi, libgtest-dev contains in 1.8.0-1 a symlink to the new on-disk location. That works for new installs, but doesn't on upgrades – a user ends up with an empty /usr/src/gtest in that case. You need to work with maintainerscripts here, see