Re: Bug#964111: dpkg-source: False positive 'points outside source root'

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

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