Bug#773762: apt-listdifferences: diff goes outside package tree

[Adam D. Barratt]

Your reply was not CCed to either the devscripts package alias or the
submitter. I had to manually download the mbox from the BTS in order to
reply. Please remember to CC people when reassigning. :-(

On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 21:44 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> control: severity -1 wishlist
> control: reassign -1 devscripts
> control: affects -1 apt-listdifferences
> control: retitle -1 [debdiff] option to avoid dereferencing symlinks
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Achim Schaefer wrote:
> > when running apt-listdifferences, it happens sometimes, diff is comparing data outside the tmp source dir.
[...]
> debdiff would need to provide an option that passes --no-dereference to diff.

Regards,

Adam