Re: Source packaging - alternatives

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>   are no differences that diff can't handle (deleted files, retargeted
>   links, &c).

I don't know if "retargeted links" covers the following situation, but
don't forget about dangling symbolic links.  The GIMP upstream source
contains links to a binaries which don't exist until you build the
package.  This does not make diff happy.  I got around the problem by
just deleting the links in the upstream source before running diff,
but this is not really ideal.

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Rob