When debian/ is symbolic link
Guillem Jover
guillem at debian.org
Sun Jan 18 15:51:01 UTC 2015
Hi!
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 01:11:20 -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> Adding dpkg maintainers since the error isn't from any
> devscripts-specific code. debuild is running as a thin wrapper to
> dpkg-buildpackage in this scenario.
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 07:09:16AM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > `debuild -us -uc` seems to do not work when debian/ is symbolic link.
> > Is it any way to fix it? Typescript attached.
>
> Is there a legitimate use case for this? The error is that dpkg-source
> can't create a source package because debian/ is a symlink, which seems
> valid to me.
Yes, that would be #593710, you need to use an actual directory and
not a symlink to one.
> > I belive, main point is this line:
> >
> > add_directory() only handles directories at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package/V2.pm line 556
> >
> > but I have no idea what does it mean.
I'll be improving the error message for this, as it seems to be
confusing.
Thanks,
Guillem
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