[pkg-db-devel] Bug#773806: libdb5.3-java: Pre-installation script fails

[Ulrich Klauer]

Package: libdb5.3-java
Version: 5.3.28-7~deb8u1
Severity: grave
Justification: prevents package from being installed/upgraded

Unfortunately, there is another[1] bug in libdb5.3-java.maintscript which
means that the package still can't be installed or, if an earlier version
is present, can't be upgraded. The error message is:

> dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: original symlink target is not an absolute path

So, the target argument to symlink_to_dir must be an absolute path, i.e.
"/usr/share/doc/libdb5.3" instead of just "libdb5.3". See [2] for an
explanation of why this was changed in dpkg 1.17.13.

Ulrich

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/771877
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/758778

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libdb5.3-java depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.17.13
ii  libdb5.3-java-jni  5.3.28-7~deb8u1

libdb5.3-java recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libdb5.3-java suggests:
pn  libdb5.3-java-gcj  <none>

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