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Bug#774938: marked as done (fte-terminal, fte-xwindow: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE)

Your message dated Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:33:25 +0000
with message-id <E1Y9Xoj-0001jQ-Ej@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#774938: fixed in fte 0.50.2b6-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #774938,
regarding fte-terminal, fte-xwindow: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
to be marked as done.

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Package: fte-terminal,fte-xwindow
Version: 0.50.2b6-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

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:

  lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie

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#s-copyrightfile

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#s-unpackphase

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.mainstscript.
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 (usually somewhere in the middle...):

4m44.3s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
  /usr/share/doc/fte-xwindow/changelog.Debian.gz (fte-xwindow) != /usr/share/doc/fte/changelog.Debian.gz (fte)
    /usr/share/doc/fte-xwindow -> fte
  /usr/share/doc/fte-xwindow/copyright (fte-xwindow) != /usr/share/doc/fte/copyright (fte)
    /usr/share/doc/fte-xwindow -> fte

2m34.8s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
  /usr/share/doc/fte-terminal/changelog.Debian.gz (fte-terminal) != /usr/share/doc/fte/changelog.Debian.gz (fte)
    /usr/share/doc/fte-terminal -> fte
  /usr/share/doc/fte-terminal/copyright (fte-terminal) != /usr/share/doc/fte/copyright (fte)
    /usr/share/doc/fte-terminal -> fte


cheers,

Andreas

Attachment: fte-terminal_0.50.2b6-1.log.gz
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--- Begin Message --- 
Source: fte
Source-Version: 0.50.2b6-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fte, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 774938@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> (supplier of updated fte package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:09:10 +0100
Source: fte
Binary: fte fte-docs fte-xwindow fte-console fte-terminal
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.50.2b6-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
Description:
 fte        - Text editor for programmers - base package
 fte-console - Text editor for programmers - console edition, no I18N support
 fte-docs   - Documentation and examples for the FTE editor
 fte-terminal - Text editor for programmers - version for terminals
 fte-xwindow - Text editor for programmers - X Window System edition with I18N s
Closes: 774938
Changes:
 fte (0.50.2b6-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Fix unhandled symlink-to-directory conversion dating back to to the
     lenny -> squeeze upgrade.  (Closes: #774938)
   * d/rules: Run dh_installdeb before dh_gencontrol.
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