[debhelper-devel] [debhelper] 01/01: dh_compress: Use ln -f for creating hardlinks

[Niels Thykier]

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commit b6c775550ba14a8813100709153897949c8044c3
Author: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Date:   Wed Jul 12 20:09:05 2017 +0000

    dh_compress: Use ln -f for creating hardlinks
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
---
 debian/changelog | 3 +++
 dh_compress      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f6525fd..1ba1c74 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ debhelper (10.6.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     (Closes: #867846)
   * Dh_lib.pm: Rewrite reset_perm_and_owner to it does chmod + chown
     using perl built-ins rather than forking+exec.
+  * dh_compress: Apply patch from Sven Joachim to make dh_compress
+    gracefully handle hardlinks, where the target files already
+    exists.  (Closes: #867881)
 
  -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Sun, 09 Jul 2017 12:30:20 +0000
 
diff --git a/dh_compress b/dh_compress
index b5b1fb3..a0000d0 100755
--- a/dh_compress
+++ b/dh_compress
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ on_pkgs_in_parallel {
 			# Remove old file.
 			rm_files($_);
 			# Make new hardlink.
-			doit("ln","$hardlinks{$_}.gz","$_.gz");
+			doit("ln","-f","$hardlinks{$_}.gz","$_.gz");
 		}
 
 		verbose_print("cd '$olddir'");

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