The man page for deb-conffiles states that conffiles should be absolute pathnames.
Starting with dpkg 1.20.1, dpkg will fail to install packages that don't use absolute pathnames for conffiles. Ubuntu 21.04 is a distro that is effected by this change.
This PR now ensures that conffile entries are absolute paths and rewrites them if they are not.
This PR also reverts #171. While using absolute paths for assets doesn't seem to affect behavior, as the default behavior of tar is to strip the leading slash (unless given -P/--absolute-names), it is more correct to use relative paths for asset paths as relative paths are shown in the debian handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/packaging-system.html
Tested that relative conffiles are rewritten as absolute and that the package is installable on Ubuntu 21.04
kornelski
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3 years ago
The man page for deb-conffiles states that conffiles should be absolute pathnames.
Starting with dpkg 1.20.1, dpkg will fail to install packages that don't use absolute pathnames for conffiles. Ubuntu 21.04 is a distro that is effected by this change.
This PR now ensures that conffile entries are absolute paths and rewrites them if they are not.
This PR also reverts #171. While using absolute paths for assets doesn't seem to affect behavior, as the default behavior of
taris to strip the leading slash (unless given-P/--absolute-names), it is more correct to use relative paths for asset paths as relative paths are shown in the debian handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/packaging-system.htmlTested that relative conffiles are rewritten as absolute and that the package is installable on Ubuntu 21.04
Closes #172