[pkg-db-devel] Bug#771877: libdb5.3-java: trailing slash makes dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir call useless

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: libdb5.3-java
Version: 5.3.28-6
Severity: serious

Hi,

libdb5.3-java.maintscript contains a bug, rendering it useless:

  symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/libdb5.3-java/ /usr/share/doc/libdb5.3 5.3.28-6~ -- "$@"
                                             ^

The trailing slash on the PATHNAME argument is wrong because

  test -h /path/to/link/

will never succeed - it always resolves to an underlying directory -
while

  test -h /path/to/link

will work as expected.

Do not forget to bump the LASTVERSION when fixing this - the symlink
would have survived into the current version.


Andreas