libnvpair1linux doc contents have busted symlinks

Couple of notes:

1. This is not an issue with clean install of zfsutils-linux
2. Removing zfsutils-linux and an autoremove with a re-install fixes this
3. This occurs on an upgrade from a previous release if I understand the issue correctly.

This seems to only occur with a Xenial -> Artful or Xenial -> Bionic upgrades and not Artful -> Bionic.

Yes; this was a an upgraded system.

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Colin Ian King
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> This seems to only occur with a Xenial -> Artful or Xenial -> Bionic
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Hello Ryan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted zfs-linux into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/0.7.5-1ubuntu16 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Installed a Xenial server and then zfsutils-linux. Upgraded to Bionic with -proposed enabled and the symlinks are not broken with zfsutils-linux 0.7.5-1ubuntu16 - marking as verified

This bug was fixed in the package zfs-linux - 0.7.5-1ubuntu16

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zfs-linux (0.7.5-1ubuntu16) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Add back missing zfs-doc package (LP: #1768777)
    - this was accidentally removed from Bionic, restore it
      to keep the doc symlinks sane.

 -- Colin Ian King <email address hidden> Thu, 3 May 2018 16:51:11 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for zfs-linux has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Also affects Ubuntu/Focal:

# readlink /usr/share/doc/zfs-zed/changelog.Debian.gz
../libnvpair1linux/changelog.Debian.gz

# readlink /usr/share/doc/zfsutils-linux/changelog.Debian.gz
../libnvpair1linux/changelog.Debian.gz

# readlink /usr/share/doc/zfsutils-linux/../libnvpair1linux/changelog.Debian.gz
../libnvpair1linux/changelog.Debian.gz

So.. no changelog then.

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

# apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux
zfsutils-linux:
  Installed: 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.12
  Candidate: 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.12
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.12 500

This is also an upgraded system.

I tried removing a stale 'rc' zfs-doc (0.7.5-1ubuntu16.4), and then --reinstall'ing zfsutil-linux and libnvpair1linux, but I still have no docs, only broken symlinks.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Walter

Ok. I stand corrected.

I reinstall of libnvpair1linux _did_ fix it. (After removing zfs-doc.)

# apt-get install --reinstall libnvpair1linux
# ls -l /usr/share/doc/libnvpair1linux/
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1615 jul 12 16:36 changelog.Debian.gz

Move along.. nothing to see here.