collectd.postinst: Manually replace /u/s/d/collectd/examples/ with a symlink.

… when upgrading from versions << 4.10.0-1~ -- this is not handled by dpkg
according to policy 6.6.

Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this!
Closes: #569268

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 963cbd81b60ae218cd5ebb68deb6a74c19177c40..9e9293e38c42935bdcadd3b84a5461709d7a2452 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ collectd (4.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
     - Define (and pass to configure) $JAR.
     - Added support for Renesas SH4 to the Java arch mapping; thanks to
       Nobuhiro Iwamatsu for the patch (Closes: #564165).
+  * debian/collectd.postinst:
+    - Manually replace /usr/share/doc/collectd/examples/ with a symlink when
+      upgrading from versions << 4.10.0-1~ -- this is not handled by dpkg
+      according to policy 6.6; thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this
+      (Closes: #569268).
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:04:44 +0200
+ -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:14:50 +0200
 
 collectd (4.9.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/debian/collectd.postinst b/debian/collectd.postinst
index 8fe504880823c3baacc76207cd25e5adba672823..99bfabf4279d96d30892926100d747c0f516e403 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/collectd.postinst
+++ b/debian/collectd.postinst
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ if [ -x "/etc/init.d/collectd" ]; then
        fi
 fi
 
+# replace the directory provided by older versions of the package with a
+# symlink; dpkg does not handle that according to policy 6.6
+if [ "$1" = "configure" ] \
+               && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "4.10.0-1~"; then
+       if [ -d "/usr/share/doc/collectd/examples" ]; then
+               ! rmdir /usr/share/doc/collectd/examples > /dev/null 2>&1 \
+                       || ln -s ../collectd-core/examples \
+                               /usr/share/doc/collectd/examples
+       fi
+fi
+
 # dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
 # generated by other debhelper scripts.