Control: severity -1 wishlist Hi!
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 12:24:05 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Le 31/10/2014 04:20, Roland Mas a écrit : > > Package: php-htmlpurifier > > Version: 4.6.0-1 > > Severity: serious Once reassigned this does not deserve to be serious any longer, see below; but this might actually need to be reassigned back. > > Indeed, the debian/maintscript involves relative symlinks. > > > > However, according to dpkg's changelog, such relative symlinks have only > > been supported since 1.17.14. > > It worked before: I just successfully upgraded php-htmlpurifier using > dpkg 1.17.10. Looking closer at dpkg changelog, the regression seems to > have been introduced in dpkg 1.17.13: > > * Fix dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir to assure absolute pathnames > > arguments. It didn't work before, it just did not check for (and abort on) the bogus invocation. > And then, fixed in dpkg 1.17.14: > > > * Add support for relative symlinks to dpkg-maintscript-helper > > symlink_to_dir > > command. Suggested by Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org>. This was adding the actual support that had never been present before. > > So the php-htmlpurifier currently in > > testing can't be installed by the dpkg currently in testing. I guess a > > simple versioned dependency would fix that (alternatively, a rewrite of > > the maintscript to use absolute targets for the symlinks). > > I’d rather reassign this bug to dpkg 1.17.13 and close it with dpkg > 1.17.14 (php-htmlpurifier is not the only package relying on > symlink_to_dir. As documented on dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), the > old-target must be provided, and such target are often relatives, as > expected by the policy). In principle, packages that where using the unsupported interface, should do the actual conversion once installed with a new enough dpkg. But if those packages get upgraded first before dpkg, then they will be left w/o the conversion, so thinking about it, you might need to add a Pre-Depends on the dpkg version introducing that support, depending on the requirements of the conversion. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
