Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.4 Severity: normal Hi Guillem,
I just debugged #814646 where symlink_to_dir was not working in src:vlc. This was related to chained symlinks /usr/share/doc/package -> libpackage42 -> package-common and should work properly if "relative" symlinks are used. Maybe this case should be mentioned in the dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage. And it would be great if dpkg-maintscript-helper would have some kind of verbose mode where it reports all the "file manipulations" it performs. Or reasons not to do anything. Right now DPKG_DEBUG=1 causes it to print when it is called and with which parameters (which made me discover #814754 while investigating above bug), but not whether it found something to act on. Andreas
