[Bug 313457] [NEW] symlink is relative - which means it does not always display

[Anand Kumria]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-branding

Hi,

The branding package contains:

eve% ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png -> ../../lib/firefox-3.0.5/icons/mozicon128.png

This works in most situations; however if you have (let's say) migrated
/usr/share to /home and then symlinked /usr/share to /home/share as I
have you end up with a no firefox icon.

Having a relative symlink means that I need to 'bind' mount /home/share
onto /usr/share (possible, but not as easy to do as a migration above).
It would be nicer if the symlink was 'from the root' and thus it could
work in both situation.

i.e. please change it to:

eve% ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png ->/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/icons/mozicon128.png

Which works nicely.

Thanks,
Anand

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH: custom, user
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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symlink is relative - which means it does not always display
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