Re: mutt in slink but not potato?

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Look at this:
> 
> ./slink/main/binary-i386/mail/mutt_0.94.15-2.deb
> ./slink/main/source/mail/mutt_0.94.15-2.dsc
> ./slink/main/source/mail/mutt_0.94.15.orig.tar.gz
> ./slink/main/source/mail/mutt_0.94.15-2.diff.gz
> ./potato/main/source/mail/mutt_0.94.15.orig.tar.gz
> 
> How can this happen, why did it happen, and how can it be fixed?

By installing in slink, dinstall broke the symlinks pointing to it
from potato.  Every night we get a report of the packages that broke
this way (usually one or two), and fix them manually.

It can be prevented by uploading to "frozen unstable" when there are
symlinks, never just to "frozen".  (Uploading to just "frozen" is broken
anyway in this case, because it would make the version number in frozen
larger than the one in unstable).  Or dinstall can be made smarter.
Got a patch? :)

Richard Braakman