On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: > The dpkg-maintscript-helper usage in this package is broken, because > it's using a relative symlink target. The dpkg-maintscript-helper has > been doing sanity checks to see if the canonicalized symlink targe > (from «readlink -f») matches the passed symlink target argument, which > will just not match, and not perform the switch.
This doesn't match what the documentation still says (as of 1.17.13)[1], and also seems sort of backwards to me. The package can control the symlink's target (after all, that's what the symlink did), but has less control over the place in the filesystem that the symlink eventually points to. [In the instant case, we've previously done a /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc migration, which would have worked seamlessly if the target was checked, but would have required more changes if the cannonical target was checked. > Starting with dpkg 1.17.13 the program will error out on such > parameters (the documentation has been updated too now), so the package > becomes uninstallable/unremovable. Please switch to use an absolute > path for the symlink target. I'll do this for the time being, but either the documentation needs to be fixed, or the implementation changed. [An easy change would be to check both readlink -f or just readlink.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Once, our bodies were bells: Simply moving in the wind We tolled our names. -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
