Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.5 Severity: normal Hi,
While trying to use dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink for a package, the upgrade failed with: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: last version is missing According to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), prior-version is not mandatory, but it seems that this statement is wrong. The snippet added by dh_installdeb in the maintainer scripts was: dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink /usr/share/php/AWSSDKforPHP /usr/share/php -- "$@" Side notes: - the handling (once added a prior-version), seems pretty slow and resource consuming. - it would be nice if the created symlink was related as expected in policy, but that part might have to be handled in debhelper if not by the maintainer itself. - it would also be nice if the leading slash were not mandatory, but again, that expectation may be better handled in debhelper for consistency. For the record, the accurate syntax for the result I expected seems to be: dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink /usr/share/php/AWSSDKforPHP . 2.5.0-2~ -- "$@" Regards David -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-5 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libselinux1 2.2.1-1 ii tar 1.27-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.14.2 -- no debconf information
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