Bug#214699: dpkg-divert: appears to copy symlink and leaves old one there [libxrender1]

[Chris Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.15
Severity: serious

There appears to be some kind of issue with dpkg-divert not moving
symlinks at times. Both Branden and I have looked at libxrender1 and it
appears to be calling divert correctly but the file is diverted _AND_
the old file is still left in its location. I tested this inside a clean
chroot and was able to repeat it multiple times.

BTW - This is in libxrender1 0.8.3-1.

Chris

Here is its preinst:

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#!/bin/sh

# $Id: libxrender1.preinst 27 2003-05-04 10:22:34Z branden $

set -e

if [ "$1" = "install" -o "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then
    dpkg-divert --package libxrender1 --add --rename \
        --divert /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1
fi



exit 0

# vim:set ai et sts=4 sw=4 tw=0:
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux calc 2.4.22-bk18 #1 SMP Mon Sep 15 12:55:07 CDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                       1.10.15    a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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