On Sat, 17 Jun 2023, 02:05 Luca Boccassi, <[email protected]> wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:26:11 +0200 Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Package: dash > > Version: 0.5.12-4 > > Severity: serious > > > > Hi, > > > > if you --path-exclude=/usr/share/man, dash fails to upgrade from -2. > > Reproducer: > > > > mmdebstrap trixie /dev/null --dpkgopt='path-exclude=/usr/share/man/*' > --chrooted-customize-hook='sed -i -e s/trixie/sid/ > /etc/apt/sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get -y install dash' > > > > Unfortunately, this breaks upgrading docker images debian:sid-slim to > > unstable at the moment and that breaks lots of CI jobs. > > > > I guess it is the readlink that silently fails on the non-existent > > manual page link. Probably, when that link doesn't exist and it is > > diverted by dash, we should assume that it is ok-ish: > > > > actualtarget=$(readlink "$dfile") || actualtarget=$ltarget > > > > What do you think? > > Yeah I can confirm your suggestion works, attached in patch format with > attribution. >
Andrej I see that you are out of office, would you like me to NMU this fix to unblock the CI? Kind regards, Lube Boccassi >
