[Bug 471859] [NEW] installs broken symlinks

[Peter Cordes]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: eclipse-platform

found with cruft(8).  demonstrated as follows.  up-to-date Karmic, with
no broken dependencies and debsums -ac happy about every package.

peter at tesla:~$ find -L $(dpkg -L eclipse-platform)  -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls
29743591    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          146 Oct 31 15:44 /usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform.source_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7z0ZuZBD-lz08RfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg -> ../../../../share/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform.source_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7z0ZuZBD-lz08RfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg
33682653    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          139 Oct 31 15:44 /usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7z0ZuZBD-lz08RfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg -> ../../../../share/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7z0ZuZBD-lz08RfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg
38086781    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          140 Oct 31 15:44 /usr/lib/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.sdk_3.5.1.R35x_v20090811-7Q7bAIAva_6wc1RFNGQu2H2gbqVdyA0fsSRF25z0RYUth/eclipse_update_120.jpg -> ../../../../share/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.sdk_3.5.1.R35x_v20090811-7Q7bAIAva_6wc1RFNGQu2H2gbqVdyA0fsSRF25z0RYUth/eclipse_update_120.jpg

It appears that the symlink targets have a typo or and old version in the id-code part of the path.  (found by seeing when tab-completion would kick in, pressing left-arrow, tab repeatedly :)
../../../../share/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform.source_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7z0ZuZBD-lz08RfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg
should be  (note the 7z0 -> 7v)
../../../../share/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.platform.source_3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9lEeG9OFtY8dO6SPxmI7vZuZBD-lz08MfIkCCB/eclipse_update_120.jpg

** Affects: eclipse (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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