Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.12 Severity: minor Hello,
I'm working on unofficial packages of Geant 4, and in the process I've found a bug in a special case of dh_link. I have a file debian/geant4-common.links with the following contents: usr/share/geant4/config usr/lib/geant4/config usr/lib/geant4 usr/lib/geant4/Linux-g++ (Basically, upstream's build system creates a directory .../geant4/Linux-g++ in which all the libraries are placed. For Debian, there's no sense in having the architecture in the path, so I put them into /usr/lib/geant4, but some upstream tools may try to look in .../geant4/Linux-g++ nonetheless. Thus "Linux-g++" needs to be a symlink to the directory that contains it. I'm aware that this is ugly and non-optimal.) The result of running dh_link is the following in the .deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-01-07 02:11:48 ./usr/lib/geant4/Linux-g++ -> ../geant4 This results in a Lintian error "lengthy-symlink". The link produced by dh_link should instead be "./usr/lib/geant4/Linux-g++ -> ." -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils 5.93-5 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.4.67 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.9.2 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
