[maemo-developers] Optification creates link-loop

[From: Jeff Moe]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 10:30:39 Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I´m having a strange optification problem which leads to a link-loop.
> 
> I´m building two packages out of one source tree and I´m having 
> maemo-optify in /debian/rules.
> 
> Package one is "conboy" and package two is "conboy-midgard". Both 
> packages install plugins as library files and small text files into 
> /usr/lib/conboy/
> 
> The resulting conboy package has the complete /usr/lib/conboy directory 
> moved to /opt/maemo/. So the link looks like this:
> /usr/lib/conboy --> /opt/maemo/usr/lib/conboy
> 
> The resulting conboy-midgard packages only moves one .so file to /opt. 
> Some smaller files are not moved. So the link looks like this:
> /usr/lib/conboy/midgard.so --> /opt/maemo/usr/lib/conboy/midgard.so
> 
> When installing both packages via apt-get it creates a link-loop that 
> looks like this:
> /opt/maemo/usr/lib/conboy/midgard.so --> 
> /opt/maemo/usr/lib/conboy/midgard.so
> 
> Does anyone know what´s going on there? I´m puzzled. If I manually 
> extract the data.tar.gz files of both packages, the result looks fine.
> 
> Help would be really appreciated!

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

-Jeff
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba