On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 09:29:44 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 09:08:43PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > > not sure if this is the same bug or just a similar one: > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 9 Jul 3 16:07 debian/munin.service -> /dev/null > > As for Holger's package, Lintian also flags that condition. Source > > packages can be unpacked anywhere. We likewise consider absolute > > symlink targets unacceptable there. > > W: munin source: absolute-symbolic-link-target-in-source > > debian/munin.service -> /dev/null > > sigh. so IMNSHO now lintian *and* dpkg are buggy. Or point me to policy > which prohibits files pointing to /dev/null. This worked for years. > > (I haven't cloned the dpkg bug yet, as I believed Guillem would upload a > fix quickly and thus I wanted to prevent busy paperwork. IMO the bug > should be cloned and the severity raised to serious for the clone.)
Holger, as I mentioned some days ago, I consider this case a regression which I was planning on fixing. This fix was already included earlier today in the dpkg 1.20.4 upload. :) Thanks, Guillem
