[Bug 1474519] Re: realpath fails with inexplicable error message "Not a directory"

[Dominik Viererbe]

Should we set this to "Won't fix" for Trusty?

** Tags added: rls-tt-incoming

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Title:
  realpath fails with inexplicable error message "Not a directory"

Status in coreutils:
  Fix Released
Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in coreutils source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  After reading `man realpath` it should be clear why

      $ cd /tmp
      $ touch a
      $ realpath ./a/..
      realpath: ‘./a/..’: Not a directory

  occurs. The manpage doesn't contain the word "directory" and thus the
  error message can't make sense.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: coreutils 8.23-3ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 4.1.1-040101-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Jul 14 21:09:07 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (36 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-06-09 (35 days ago)

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