clone 445550 -1
reassign -1 debhelper
retitle -1 dh_link: produces problems with forming relative links
severity -1 wishlist
thanks
Hi!
As I was receiving the same problem report from someone else in the
meantime I am about to upload the package with a workaround for the
issue. Still I think this problem might bite quite some others, too;
maybe it should even be taken to the policy people for allowing a finer
tuning of ones system.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Bob Rutsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-06 20:33:39 CEST]:
> > This game tries to open
> > "/usr/share/games/wesnoth/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf" font file, which is
> > symbolic link on real file in Debian system,
> > but it links as "../../../fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf".
> > On my system "/usr/share/games" is a symbolic link on other partition
> > (because this directory taking a lot of disk space), so when game
> > tries to open "/usr/share/games/wesnoth/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf" it
> > gives "No such file or directory".
>
> That's fine, but it's a bit out of my hand: the debhelper tool dh_link
> claims to be policy compliant for that:
>
> #v+
> dh_link will generate symlinks that comply with debian policy -
> absolute when policy says they should be absolute, and relative
> links with as short a path as possible.
> #v-
>
> If you think this really should get changed please speak with the
> debehlper people about it. I'll leave the bug open for the time being,
> if you want you can reassign it to the package debhelper.
You haven't responded at all, but as said above, I have heard about the
same problem from someone else so I thought again about it.
So long,
Rhonda
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