On 2014-12-02 06:01, Guillem Jover wrote: > I guess you set the severity to important, because it would avoid > having to fix the affected package? How many packages are we talking > about? Is it just that one?
No, I filed #771753 immediately afterwards. There are probably only two source packages buggy: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=symlink_to_dir\s%2B\S%2B%2F\s%2B let me file another bug against db5.3 :-) I haven't checked dir_to_symlink > I guess I could use your proposed fix (for both symlink_to_dir and > dir_to_symlink) or use «realphat -m» over the symlink or pathname, but > I'd need to carefully ponder about the consequences. I'd rather do this > if at all for 1.18.x, but that would defeat your bug report I guess. :) If you don't want to fix it in dpkg, please reassign to lintian to add a check that performs argument validation on these calls. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
