Your message dated Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:23:16 +0100 with message-id <4ad425a0ec5aefde7cf97df869f27d5cc252fdb1.camel@decadent.org.uk> and subject line Re: Bug#910207: linux-headers-4.18.0-*: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE has caused the Debian Bug report #910207, regarding linux-headers-4.18.0-*: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 910207: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910207 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: linux-headers-4.18.0-*: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
- From: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:46:48 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 153857800869.13052.12241958250779166036.reportbug@zam581.zam.kfa-juelich.de>
Source: linux Version: 4.18.8-1 Severity: serious User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64 Hi, an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty) directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be detected by dpkg. This was observed on the following upgrade paths: For /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE this may not be problematic as long as both packages are installed, ship byte-for-byte identical files and are upgraded in lockstep. But once one of the involved packages gets removed, the other one will lose its documentation files, too, including the copyright file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#copyright-information For other overwritten locations anything interesting may happen. Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this. See in particular the end of point 4 in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#details-of-unpack-phase-of-installation-or-upgrade It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14) to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript. Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control. See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m31.8s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64/changelog.Debian.gz (linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64) != /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common/changelog.Debian.gz (linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common) /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64 -> linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64/copyright (linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64) != /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common/copyright (linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common) /usr/share/doc/linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64 -> linux-headers-4.18.0-1-common This seems to happen in all linux-headers-VERSION-ABI-FLAVOR packages. (This will probably resolve automatically with the next ABI bump.) cheers, AndreasAttachment: linux-headers-4.18.0-1-amd64_4.18.8-1.log.gz
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- Subject: Re: Bug#910207: linux-headers-4.18.0-*: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
- From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:23:16 +0100
- Message-id: <4ad425a0ec5aefde7cf97df869f27d5cc252fdb1.camel@decadent.org.uk>
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Version: 4.18.10-1 On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 16:46 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: [...] > (This will probably resolve automatically with the next ABI bump.) Which has already happened, so closing this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow LindbergAttachment: signature.asc
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