Bug#5349: dftp 2.1-1 contains symlink to /home/bcwhite/bin/dftp

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> The source package for dftp[1] contains an erroneous symlink to
> /home/bcwhite/bin/dftp
> 
> Sun Nov 10 16:59:31 ~/transfer [534] $ls -l dftp-2.1/
> total 21
> -rw-------   1 jjtroup  1500        17976 Aug 26 21:47 COPYING
> drwx------   2 jjtroup  1500          512 Nov  1 22:10 debian
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 jjtroup  1500           22 Nov 10 16:44 dftp -> /home/bcwhite/bin/dftp
> -rw-------   1 jjtroup  1500          413 Aug 24 18:25 dftp.conf

Heh, heh, heh...  Oops!  I thought I told tar to resolve those links...

Oh, I know...  I used "dpkg-buildpkg" and that is what created the source
archive.

Ian, do you think "dpkg-buildpkg" should follow symlinks when creating
the source archive?
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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