Bug#758778: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

2014-08-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 Severity: serious Justification: makes packages uninstallable/unremovable Affects: autoconf-archive Dear Maintainer, the changelog for 1.17.13 contains: * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure absolute pathnames arguments. The problem is that

Bug#758778: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

2014-08-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 11:18:46 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 Severity: serious Justification: makes packages uninstallable/unremovable Affects: autoconf-archive the changelog for 1.17.13 contains: * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure

Bug#758778: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

2014-08-21 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 11:18:46 +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 Severity: serious Justification: makes packages uninstallable/unremovable Affects: autoconf-archive the changelog for 1.17.13 contains: * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure

Bug#758778: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

2014-08-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: affects -1 lilypond Hi, On 21.08.2014 11:50, Guillem Jover wrote: This and any other such package (although we did a quick check over codesearch.d.o, but I guess missed this one due to the line breaks) were broken already, and not performing the symlink to dir switch anyway because

Bug#758778: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

2014-08-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: affects -1 imagemagick Hi, On 21.08.2014 12:01, Guillem Jover wrote: The only other affected package is lilypond. I'll check the actual effect from dir_to_symlink too, cook a list and send to debian-devel@. And file some RC bugs at the same time. There is also imagemagick-doc