[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#719208: File name conflicts with symlinks

[Thorsten Glaser]

Argh, this is complex!

I think we need to do this:

• Fix mediawiki-extensions to not ship Renameuser any more,
  version as x.y

• Add something to mediawiki.preinst to move back the files
  if they ended up in /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/base/Renameuser
  to /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser

• Upload mediawiki with (Breaks|Conflicts) on mw-ext << x.y~
  ⇒ which one? I’m not sure.

Also, will installing this changed mediawiki break somehow,
since dpkg will need to update or deinstall mediawiki-extensions
first?

Finally… is Renameuser the only affected extension? Isn’t there
a handy Debian tool to display packaging list conflicts (i.e.
packages installing the same files, with or without symlink
resolution)? If not, why not? If so, where? Funnily enough I’ve
run into the symlink-to-directory-is-not-replaced situation with
a package I make for at work recently too ☹ one of the very bad
parts of dpkg IMHO.

bye,
//mirabilos
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