[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#758760: Bug#758760: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

[roucaries bastien]

control: tags -1 + pending
control: clone -1 -2
control: reassign -2 dpkg
control: severity -2 wishlist
control: retitle dpkg-maint-helper should document that
dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir pathname are canonical path

Hi,

Pending for imagemagick. However could we document that
dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir pathname are canonical path ?

Thanks

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: found -1 8:6.8.8.2-1
>
> On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 07:59:40 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Package: imagemagick-doc
>>
>> Preparing to unpack .../imagemagick-doc_8%3a6.8.9.6-2_all.deb ...
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
>> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-doc_8%3a6.8.9.6-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path
>> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>
> This makes the package uninstallable/removable, bumping severity.
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem
>
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