[Bug 923430] Re: pkgstripfiles: md5sum incorrect when doc dir is a symlink

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This bug was fixed in the package pkgbinarymangler - 114

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pkgbinarymangler (114) precise; urgency=low

  [ Felix Geyer ]
  * pkgstripfiles, symlink_doc(): Don't create symlinks that would point to
    the same package. (LP: #923343)
  * test/run: Add test_doc_symlink_dependency_cycle() to make sure that
    pkgstripfiles works correctly when there is a dependency cycle inside
    a source package.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * pkgstripfiles: Always update md5sum even if advpng fails. Also call advpng
    if optipng fails, to at least get some optimization. Thanks Felix Geyer!
    (LP: #923407)
  * pkgstripfiles: Do not truncate changelogs when they are in a different
    directory pointed to a symlink. Add corresponding test case which mimics
    the perl hack that it applies to its doc files. (LP: #923430)
 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>   Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:36:35 +0100

** Changed in: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  pkgstripfiles: md5sum incorrect when doc dir is a symlink

Status in “pkgbinarymangler” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  pkgstripfiles doesn't update the md5sum if /usr/share/doc/$pkg is a
  symlink to another dir inside the same pacakge.

  For example in perl-base contains the following files:
  -rw-r--r-- root/root       163 2011-11-28 20:05 ./usr/share/doc/perl/Documentation
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1483 2011-11-28 20:05 ./usr/share/doc/perl/README.Debian
  -rw-r--r-- root/root     87099 2011-11-28 20:05 ./usr/share/doc/perl/copyright
  -rw-r--r-- root/root     19009 2011-09-26 09:44 ./usr/share/doc/perl/AUTHORS.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      3329 2011-12-16 12:38 ./usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz
  lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2011-12-16 12:38 ./usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl

  pkgstripfiles reports:
  > pkgstripfiles: Truncating usr/share/doc/perl-base/changelog.Debian.gz to topmost ten records

  So it modifies usr/share/doc/perl-base/changelog.Debian.gz which
  really is usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz and thus tries to
  update the wrong file in md5sums.

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