pkgstriptranslations creates policy-incompliant symlinks

When pkgstriptranslations replaces files in /usr/share/help, /usr/share/gnome/help, etc. with symlinks to their -langpack counterparts, it creates absolute symlinks.

Since the symlinks will link two files in the same top-level directory, they will always be a violation of Debian Policy Section 10.5 - Symbolic links (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.5).

According to data extracted from http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org, there are currently about 22,500 symlinks that violate this policy in the Ubuntu archive:

  udd=# CREATE TABLE ubuntu_only_lintian AS SELECT * FROM ubuntu_lintian EXCEPT SELECT * FROM lintian;
  SELECT 156482
  udd=# SELECT COUNT(tag) AS count FROM ubuntu_only_lintian WHERE tag='symlink-should-be-relative' AND information LIKE '%-langpack%';
   count
  -------
   22509
  (1 row)

(http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org/tags/symlink-should-be-relative.html has the list of all emissions of this tag, though not all of those are unique to Ubuntu and not all of the ones unique to Ubuntu are from pkgstriptranslations)