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

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Mon Apr 11 18:19:11 UTC 2016


Bernhard Miklautz:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 04:12:30PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> [...]
> For the package I'm building the folder structure looks like this:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 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.
> [...]

Thanks for the investigative work. :)

Given the version, ef24f64 was the most obvious suspect. :)

I have devised a fix in [1418796], which I believe will fix this issue.
 I expect the next debhelper release to happen this weekend, so you may
want to cherry-pick it.

Thanks,
~Niels

[1418796]:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/?id=1418796f85ce27401673442e19977957d94079fe

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