Bug#773059: ogre-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-12-13 20:08 GMT+00:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
> Package: ogre-doc
> Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> Control: affects -1 + ogre-doc-nonfree
>
> 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 (ogre-doc-nonfree) -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie

Hi Andreas,

"ogre-doc-nonfree" was removed from unstable in mid 2010 due to "ROM;
superceded by ogre 1.6.4.dfsg1-1", and 1.6.4.dfsg1-1 was uploaded in
October 2009, and was the version shipped with squeeze (oldstable, at
this moment), released in Feb 2011.  ogre-doc-nonfree did not even
ship in squeeze.

On the other hand, "ogre-doc" is not going to be released in Jessie
(removed from testing and unstable), so this would be only fixable
with an upload to the next point release for wheezy.

Lenny was first released in Feb 2009, last point release and security
updates discontinued happened in Feb/March 2012.

https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre-doc-nonfree/news/20100610T185814Z.html
https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre/news/20091001T152940Z.html
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/


I don't know if I understand this correctly, but it seems that when
this breakage did happen was in the upgrade lenny->squeeze; and
support for both of these distributions is discontinued already,
right?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>