Lintian tag: maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The maintainer script apparently change a directory to a symlink not using
dir_to_symlink command of dpkg-maintscript-helper, that take great care to
avoid a lot of problems.

Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink command.

Please refer to the dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) manual page for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: scripts
Renamed from: maintainer-script-may-use-dir_to_symlink_helper
This tag is experimental.

Affected packages

source	version	binary	tag type	tag	information	count
bitlbee	3.6-1.4	bitlbee/3.6-1.4	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf bitlbee-common $doc" [postinst:8]	9
bitlbee	3.6-1.4	bitlbee-dev/3.6-1.4	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf bitlbee-common $doc" [postinst:8]	9
console-setup	1.232	console-setup/1.232	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf keyboard-configuration /usr/share/doc" [postinst:21]	1
console-setup	1.232	console-setup-mini/1.232	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf keyboard-configuration /usr/share/doc" [postinst:18]	1
crawl	2:0.28.0-1.1	crawl/2:0.28.0-1.1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc" [postinst:7]	8
crawl	2:0.28.0-1.1	crawl/2:0.28.0-1.1+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc" [postinst:7]	1
debconf	1.5.87	debconf-utils/1.5.87	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf debconf /usr/share/doc" [postinst:9]	1
debusine	0.7.2	debusine-server/0.7.2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s /usr/share/doc" [postinst:76]	1
docbook-html-forms	1.1.0-5.1	docbook-html-forms/1.1.0-5.1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s ../../../xml/doc" [postinst:12]	1
emacs	1:29.4+1-3	emacs-gtk/1:29.4+1-3	overridden	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sv emacs-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:15]	9
emacs	1:29.4+1-3	emacs-lucid/1:29.4+1-3	overridden	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sv emacs-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:15]	9
emacs	1:29.4+1-3	emacs-nox/1:29.4+1-3	overridden	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sv emacs-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:15]	9
emacs	1:29.4+1-3	emacs-pgtk/1:29.4+1-3	overridden	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sv emacs-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:15]	9
ettercap	1:0.8.3.1-13	ettercap-graphical/1:0.8.3.1-13+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc/ettercap-common ${doc" [postinst:9]	8
ettercap	1:0.8.3.1-13	ettercap-graphical/1:0.8.3.1-13+b2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc/ettercap-common ${doc" [postinst:9]	1
ettercap	1:0.8.3.1-13	ettercap-text-only/1:0.8.3.1-13+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc/ettercap-common ${doc" [postinst:9]	8
ettercap	1:0.8.3.1-13	ettercap-text-only/1:0.8.3.1-13+b2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc/ettercap-common ${doc" [postinst:9]	1
gcc-14	14.2.0-8	lib32stdc++6/14.2.0-8	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gcc-14-base $doc" [postinst:8]	3
gcc-14	14.2.0-8	lib64stdc++6/14.2.0-8	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gcc-14-base $doc" [postinst:8]	1
gdb	15.2-1	gdb-multiarch/15.2-1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf gdb /usr/share/doc" [postinst:7]	9
gdb	15.2-1	gdb-source/15.2-1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf gdb /usr/share/doc" [postinst:7]	1
gimp-help	2.10.34-2	gimp-help-de/2.10.34-2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gimp-help-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:11]	1
gimp-help	2.10.34-2	gimp-help-en/2.10.34-2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gimp-help-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:11]	1
gimp-help	2.10.34-2	gimp-help-fr/2.10.34-2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gimp-help-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:11]	1
gimp-help	2.10.34-2	gimp-help-sv/2.10.34-2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s gimp-help-common /usr/share/doc" [postinst:11]	1
klibc	2.0.13-4	klibc-utils/2.0.13-4	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf libklibc /usr/share/doc" [postinst:9]	9
ldp-docbook-stylesheets	0.0.20040321-3.1	ldp-docbook-xsl/0.0.20040321-3.1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf ../../../../xml/docbook/stylesheet/ldp ?/usr/share/sgml/doc" [preinst:9]	1
libglade2	1:2.6.4-2.4	libglade2-dev/1:2.6.4-2.4+b2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ /usr/share/doc" [postinst:6]	9
libspf2	1.2.10-8.2	libspf2-dev/1.2.10-8.2+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf libspf2-2 $doc" [postinst:9]	9
libspf2	1.2.10-8.2	spfquery/1.2.10-8.2+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf libspf2-2 $doc" [postinst:21]	9
mailagent	1:3.1-106-1	mailagent/1:3.1-106-1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s /usr/share/doc/mailagent /usr/doc" [postinst:481]	7
mailagent	1:3.1-106-1	mailagent/1:3.1-106-1+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s /usr/share/doc/mailagent /usr/doc" [postinst:481]	2
mysql-8.0	8.0.40-1	mysql-server-8.0/8.0.40-1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s ../../usr/share/doc" [preinst:94]	8
openjdk-8	8u432-b06-2	openjdk-8-jre/8u432-b06-2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf openjdk-8-jre-headless /usr/share/doc" [postinst:18]	8
tasksel	3.77	tasksel-data/3.77	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf tasksel /usr/share/doc" [postinst:10]	1
uim	1:1.8.8-9.5	libuim-dev/1:1.8.8-9.5+b2	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -s libuim8 /usr/share/doc" [postinst:12]	9
wims	2:4.28+dfsg1-1	wims/2:4.28+dfsg1-1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf /usr/share/doc" [postinst:162]	9
wv	1.2.9-8	wv/1.2.9-8+b1	experimental	maintainer-script-switches-dir-to-symlink-unsafely	"ln -sf libwv-1.2-4 /usr/share/doc" [postinst:10]	9