Bug#301140: acknowledged by developer (Re: Processed: Re: Bug#301140: libstdc++6-4.0-doc: dpkg fails to manage this package : filenames too long (on my box at least))

[Alban browaeys <browaeys.alban@wanadoo.fr>]

> The "File name too long" is an error returned by the rename() call,
> specifically ENAMETOOLONG.
> 
> This filename is too long for your filesystem.  I don't think dpkg
> should randomly truncate or alter filenames, therefore there's nothing
> dpkg can do here other than abort the installation.

well i agree but i use ext3 which is default filesystem for debian. So
it breaks for most users ( and ext is not the one with the lowest limit
so most filesystem are affected too).

as the html dir doc is already compiled with the option for short
filenames could the html_user dir be too ?

Though i would not have found out it was a fs problem. Thank you for the
information.
Alban