Bug#390093: gcc-4.1-doc: Overwrites copyright and Debian changelog of gcc-4.1-base
Package: gcc-4.1-doc-non-dfsg
Version: 4.1.1-nf1
Severity: serious
In previous versions of gcc-4.1-doc (up to 4.1.1-10),
/usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-doc was a symlink to gcc-4.1-base. Because
dpkg follows the symlink when upgrading the package, your files end up
in /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-base, overwriting the files there (dpkg does
not detect that clash, unfortunately).
To resolve this issue, I suggest you create a prescript which tests if
usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-doc is a symlink and, if this is the case,
removes it. Note that you must take care to delete spurious files
from previous versions of the gcc-4.1-doc package in
usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-base as well.
Since the other packages built from the same source probably have the
same problem :-(, I've assigned this bug to the source package.
Good luck in resolving this mess and thanks for packaging the GCC
documentation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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