Bug#297614: dpkg: dpkg makes conffiles to circular symlinks

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:

> I know of no way on earth that dpkg can do this; however I note that
> you're using Manoj's ucf package to manage your conffiles not dpkg --
> therefore this bug is far more likely to be in that package.

As I said, it isn't.  To further show that we do not mess around with
those files in our maintainer scripts, here's the output of a grep on
the updated system:

$ grep hyphen.cfg /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.*
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.conffiles:/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.conffiles:/etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/usr/share/texmf/tex/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:4ed6b6851784d192c4983eeb969844c2  usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:1199fd3dbe752e8eedaca7a5a6df9258  etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:987e934d95d372902b0e1a81d3dc3802  etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg

And this is on a standard unstable system:

$ grep hyphen.cfg /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.*
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.conffiles:/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.conffiles:/etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list:/usr/share/texmf/tex/cslatex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:65b84fff88e761f88d072cf7c6ef39ad  usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:1199fd3dbe752e8eedaca7a5a6df9258  etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.md5sums:987e934d95d372902b0e1a81d3dc3802  etc/texmf/cslatex/hyphen.cfg

Note that the platex/hyphen.cfg file has identical md5sum.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer