Hi, On 06/12/16 21:36, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Package: r-cran-rcurl >> Version: 1.95-4.8-1 >> Severity: serious >> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org >> Usertags: piuparts >> >> ... >> >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): >> >> 2m19.9s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink: >> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples/CIS (r-cran-rcurl) != /usr/share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples/CIS (?) >> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples -> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples >> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples/CIS/cis.R (r-cran-rcurl) != /usr/share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples/CIS/cis.R (?) >> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples -> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples >> ... > > I tried to fix this the following way. In the Jessie package > r-cran-rcurl_1.95-4.3-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb the examples link is: > > > $ readlink /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples > ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples > > > Since in the package in unstable examples is a directory I tried > to fix the upgrade path by > > > $ cat debian/maintscript > symlink_to_dir /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples 1.95-4.3-1 The version number should be the version number immediately before the one where the dpkg-maintscript stuff is added, not when the symlink was converted to a directory. In this case you probably want to use "1.95-4.8-2~" (if the bug is fixed in 1.95-4.8-2). See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) prior-version section. Thanks, James
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