[debhelper-devel] Bug#820711: Bug#820711: dh_compress: fails if the debian directory is a symlink

[Bernhard Miklautz]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 04:12:30PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> "debian" folder as in the "debian" folder itself?
>   debian/control -> ../../another/dir/control
I didn't test this case.

>   debian -> ../../another/dir/
For the package I'm building the folder structure looks like this:

-nightly
 - packaging
   - deb
     - nightly
      - control 
      - rules
      - ...
 - debian -> packaging/deb/nightly 

The debian folder is a symlink to another folder within the same
directory. 

I also tested the case when the link destination is outside the
directory structure like:

- packaging
  - deb
    - nightly
     - control 
     - rules
     - ...
-nightly
 - debian -> ../packaging/deb/nightly 

This basically ends up in the same error but with a different path
prefix (../../../):

chmod: cannot access '../../../packaging/deb/freerdp-nightly/freerdp-nightly/usr/share/doc/freerdp-nightly/changelog': No such file or directory

However if the link is only "one level" like the following it works:

-nightly
 - nightly
  - control
  - rules
  - ...
 - debian -> nightly

All of the above combinations worked before 9.20160306.
When I narrowing it down the problem seems to be related to commit
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/dh_compress?id=ef24f6405d14d1359d4b4e4c2028a28b47035d8b

Thank you.