Quality Assurance

Installing anything over a symlink opens a can of worms - this causes problems on upgrades while switching between directory and symlink or if the symlink is ever changed.
Piuparts looks at all $pathname known to dpkg and checks for

$(dirname $pathname) != $(readlink $(dirname $pathname))

The commandline to find these logs is:

COMMAND='grep -E "silently overwrites files via directory symlinks|installs objects over existing directory symlinks|dirname part contains a symlink"'

• 22 - fail/golang-github-openzipkin-zipkin-go-dev_0.4.3-1.log [all] (piuparts.d.o) (tracker.d.o) (BTS)
• 17 - fail/golang-etcd-server-dev_3.5.16-3.log [all] (piuparts.d.o) (tracker.d.o) (BTS) #855876
• 1 - fail/golang-github-micromdm-scep-dev_2.1.0-3.log [all] (piuparts.d.o) (tracker.d.o) (BTS)

• 0 - bugged/python-guizero-doc_1.5.0+dfsg-1.log [all] (piuparts.d.o) (tracker.d.o) (BTS) #1070434

Affected packages in stable2sid: 4