Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: normal The following lintian error occured during the testing of a package I am preparing:
E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/firefox/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781} ../../../../share/mozilla-extensions/greasemonkey And, after making it absolute: E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-relative usr/lib/firefox/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781} /usr/share/mozilla-extensions/greasemonkey The first of these is obviously wrong. After further testing I realized that the symlink ascended one too many levels and was broken. Lintian erronously reported that a broken relative symlink (which should be relative) should be made absolute. It might be wise to add a broken symlink error or warning. Thanks! Michael Spang -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc5-git3 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.16 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]