Bug#586491: closed by Bastian Blank (Re: Bug#586491: Broken symlinks created for package if /usr/src is a symlink)

2010-06-20 Thread Evan Harris
The issue is not fixed by simply quoting policy and taking no action to correct the problem. 10.5 specifies that "In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be relative". It should be fairly easy to make a symlink that does work on the target system if it takes into acc

Bug#586491: Broken symlinks created for package if /usr/src is a symlink

2010-06-19 Thread Evan Harris
Package: linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common Version: 2.6.32-15 If /usr/src is symlinked to a different location, the symlinks within the package for 'Kbuild' and 'scripts' end up being broken since ../.. traverses from the actual location. This is likely a problem for all the versions of this pac