reassign 297614 tetex-base retitle 297614 tetex-base: symlink to directory replaced by directory in package thanks On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:24 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:29 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > > >> Frank K.ster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote: > >> > > 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. > > We are managing *a*couple*of* our conffiles with ucf, but by far not all > of them. The files in question are just usual conffiles. Please have a > look at the command output attached below. > Ah, apologies; I'd quickly gone through your scripts and thought those three were ucf ones -- now I look closer, they're not. I've managed to figure out what's happening here: In 2.0.2c-3 (nearest one I could grab, still shows the problem), you have the following: lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2004-12-12 23:09:06 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config -> /etc/texmf/platex In 3.0-0.4 we have: drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-02-28 10:51:17 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 201 2004-03-26 19:14:23 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/platex.ini -rw-r--r-- root/root 188 2004-03-26 19:13:00 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/pdfplatex.ini lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-02-28 10:51:17 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/language.dat -> /etc/texmf/platex/language.dat lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-02-28 10:51:17 ./usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/hyphen.cfg -> /etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg You can't replace symlinks to directories with symlinks with dpkg alone (to preserve user filesystem/drive arrangement), and this is explicitly mentioned in policy. This is therefore a bug in your package; you need to handle the symlink to directory transition in your maintainer scripts. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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