On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hmm, this was supposed to be fixed with the upload that made the check > coherent with the implementation, this is what the man page says for > the symlink to directory switch (which is what lilypond-doc is using):
[...] > or is there something else I missed on the update (perhaps the omitted > stuff referenced by [1]?). Sorry; 1: was supposed to indicate that I hadn't checked the your VCS repository. And now that I see, I was reading the manpage from 1.17.10 instead of 1.17.13 because I stupidly assumed that dpkg-maintscript-helper was in dpkg-dev, not dpkg... My bad. The documentation in 1.17.13 is clear enough now that I'm actually reading that version. Sorry. > Sure, it seems and it is a bit backwards, but that's because the > initial implementation could only handle absolute symlink targets for > dir_to_symlink, so “it seemed to make more sense” to have both be > symmetric. When the dir_to_symlink got fixed to also accept relative > symlinks, I actually got a bit bothered by the new asymmetry, but… Ah; makes sense. I think lilypond's symlink happened by the expedient of just doing it instead of using dpkg-maintscript-helper. > … neither me nor Helmut did think of this obvious solution, I don't > know why!? maybe just because we had our minds elsehwere during the > Bootstrap Sprint :), I'll try to recall if there was actually any > problem. But otherwise, I'll just be adding relative symlink support > to symlink_to_dir in dpkg 1.17.14, but be aware that previous dpkg > version will either accept them but not perform the actual switch or > outright refuse them. Right; I'll fix the lilypond postinst. It's sort of embarrassing too, because I thought I tested that it worked... but it's likely that I wasn't paying enough attention (or had managed to remove the older version). -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
