diff -u makejail-0.0.5/makejail makejail-0.0.5/makejail
--- makejail-0.0.5/makejail
+++ makejail-0.0.5/makejail
@@ -353,7 +353,14 @@
 			moveIndent(1)
 			addFileToJail(checkDir)
 			moveIndent(-1)
-	fileInChroot="%s%s" % (config.chroot,fileName)
+	# The directory part of fileName may be a symlink to an
+	# absolute pathname.  For example, fileName is
+	# "lib64/ld-linux.so.2" where "lib64" is a symlink to "/lib".
+	# In that case it should be resolved before constructing
+	# fileInChroot.  See http://bugs.debian.org/570695.
+	fileDir, baseName = os.path.split(fileName)
+	fileInChroot=os.path.join(config.chroot,os.path.realpath(fileDir)[1:],
+				  baseName)
 	if os.path.exists(fileInChroot):
 		if fileIsNewer(fileName,fileInChroot):
 			debug("   File %s is newer than the %s, overwriting" % (fileName,fileInChroot))
@@ -373,7 +380,9 @@
 			absoluteLinkTarget="%s/%s" % (fileDir,linkTarget)
 		newFiles=addFileToJail(absoluteLinkTarget)
 		missingFiles=missingFiles+newFiles
-		newWorkingDir="%s/%s" % (config.chroot,fileDir[1:])
+		# newWorkingDir may be a symlink to an absolute
+		# pathname.  See the above comment.
+		newWorkingDir="%s/%s" % (config.chroot,os.path.realpath(fileDir)[1:])
 		os.chdir(newWorkingDir)
 		debug("   Creating '%s' as a symlink to '%s' (pwd=%s)" % (fileName[1:],linkTarget,newWorkingDir))
 		os.symlink(linkTarget,os.path.split(fileName)[1])
diff -u makejail-0.0.5/debian/changelog makejail-0.0.5/debian/changelog
--- makejail-0.0.5/debian/changelog
+++ makejail-0.0.5/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+makejail (0.0.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fix pathname handling when the directory components include absolute
+    symlink. Thanks to Daiki Ueno for the patch (Closes: #570695).
+
+ -- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:49:51 +0100
+
 makejail (0.0.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Changes by  Florian Grandel <jerico.dev@gmail.com ]