Package: dpkg Version: 1.18.23 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I recently created a maintscript file for holotz-castle to convert symlinks to real directories on upgrade. maintscript: symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/holotz-castle /usr/share/doc/holotz-castle-data 1.3.14-8~ holotz-castle symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/holotz-castle-editor /usr/share/doc/holotz-castle-data 1.3.14-8~ holotz-castle-editor Currently the syntax described in the man page is as follows: symlink_to_dir pathname old-target [prior-version [package]] I was under the impression that symlink_to_dir will act on [package] name but apparently maintscript without the $PACKAGE prefix will only act on the first binary package. I find this behavior rather confusing at the moment. For a package with ten binary packages this would require up to ten different $PACKAGE.maintscript files which seems to be impractical to me. I would appreciate it if maintscript acted on [package] instead. If you don't want to implement this feature, please consider to update the man page of dpkg-maintscript-helper which should be more precise why specifying [package] is needed at all. Regards, Markus
