[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#577025: Bug#577025: Ships changelog (and other files) for libxml2-utils in same place as libxml2

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Apr 9 06:59:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:37:17AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> Package: libxml2-utils
> Version: 2.7.7.dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> This is probably akin to #496959. Since libxml2-utils does not have
> a doc directory for itself, the changelog shipped (and other files in
> usr/share/doc) ends up squashing those of libxml2. This would be bad if
> libxml2-utils were installed after libxml2, and then removed.

Oh I see, the good old dpkg is not able to replace a symlink with a
directory problem...

Mike





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