[debhelper-devel] Bug#866713: dh_compress: symlink(webalizer.1.gz, debian/webalizer/usr/share/man/man1/webazolver.1.gz) failed: File exists

[Sven Joachim]

Control: found -1 10.5.1
Control: tags -1 + patch

On 2017-07-01 10:01 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Source: debhelper
> Version: 10.6.1
> Severity: serious
> Control: affects -1 src:webalizer
>
> The new debhelper causes a FTBFS in webalizer:
>
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/webalizer.html
>
> ...
>   dh_compress
> dh_compress: symlink(webalizer.1.gz, debian/webalizer/usr/share/man/man1/webazolver.1.gz) failed: File exists

Previous versions of debhelper had used "ln -sf" to create the symlink,
but since version 10.5.1 dh_compress uses perl's own symlink() function
and fails to remove the target beforehand.  The attached patch fixes
this for me.

Cheers,
       Sven


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