Control: severity -1 important Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Ulrich,
I can't reproduce the bug and by reading dpkg-maintscript-helper I think you are mistaken in your diagnosis. It's the $SYMLINK and not the $SYMLINK_TARGET that has to be absolute target, see the code. But it looks like the support for relative symlinks were added in 1.17.14: dpkg (1.17.14) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Add support for relative symlinks to dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir command. Suggested by Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org>. and the ${misc:Pre-Depends} was fixed in 1.17.22: dpkg (1.17.22) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843 So libdb5.3-java just needs binNMU with dpkg 1.17.22. Cheers, Ondrej On Tue, Dec 23, 2014, at 14:45, Ulrich Klauer wrote: > Package: libdb5.3-java > Version: 5.3.28-7~deb8u1 > Severity: grave > Justification: prevents package from being installed/upgraded > > Unfortunately, there is another[1] bug in libdb5.3-java.maintscript which > means that the package still can't be installed or, if an earlier version > is present, can't be upgraded. The error message is: > > > dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute > > path > > So, the target argument to symlink_to_dir must be an absolute path, i.e. > "/usr/share/doc/libdb5.3" instead of just "libdb5.3". See [2] for an > explanation of why this was changed in dpkg 1.17.13. > > Ulrich > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/771877 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/758778 > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages libdb5.3-java depends on: > ii dpkg 1.17.13 > ii libdb5.3-java-jni 5.3.28-7~deb8u1 > > libdb5.3-java recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages libdb5.3-java suggests: > pn libdb5.3-java-gcj <none> > > -- no debconf information > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-db-devel mailing list > pkg-db-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-db-devel -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org