Bug#356307: lintian: wrong error messages for broken symlinks

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: normal The following lintian error occured during the testing of a package I am preparing: E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-absolute

Bug#356307: lintian: wrong error messages for broken symlinks

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Spang
Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm pretty sure lintian's behavior here is correct. That message isn't because the symlink is broken; it's because of exactly the problem that you discovered. It ascended one too many levels, which means that it was actually a symlink

Bug#356307: lintian: wrong error messages for broken symlinks

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Spang
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Severity: normal The following lintian error occured during the testing of a package I am preparing: E: firefox-greasemonkey: symlink-should-be-absolute usr/lib/firefox/extensions/{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}