[Splashy-devel] Bug#405534: Bug#405534: evil symlink following

[Luis Mondesi]

Thanks for reporting this.

This pushes us to make the Debian package for 0.4.1 faster ;-)

The new version installs correctly on /usr/share/splashy/themes

On Jan 3, 2008 4:04 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:
> This bug is particularly nasty, because since /etc/splashy/themes is a
> symlink into /usr, and splashy-themes contains files under that
> directory, dpkg follows the symlink, and actually puts the files in
> /usr/share/splashy/themes.
>
> --
> see shy jo
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