[Python-modules-team] Bug#758785: python-babel: Broken dir_to_symlink handling

[Guillem Jover]

Source: python-babel
Source-Version: 1.3+dfsg.1-4
Severity: important

Hi!

This package has an old and broken embedded copy of the
dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink implementation which had
several issues, among others not handling correctly relative symlink
targets passed as arguments, which the code here is doing.

Please do not embed such code, as the purpose of that tools is
precisely to have centralized code fixes, which is the problem it's
trying to solve and embedding defies that as exemplified here.

If you'd insist on still embedded its code, I'd request that you keep
track of any further changes to the program, and that you always try
to use the native command and only if not available fallback to
whatever local implementation you want to ship.

Thanks,
Guillem