Hi! On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 05:14:10 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 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 :-)
Ah, ok, thanks! > > 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. Ok, I've implemented the following for 1.18.x. Change symlink_to_dir() to error out if the symlink ends in a slash, and changed dir_to_symlink() to strip the ending slash if it's present. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
