Bug#5349: dftp 2.1-1 contains symlink to /home/bcwhite/bin/dftp
Brian White:
> [someone:]
> > 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/b
> in/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?
No, because it might legitimately have symlinks in it.
Ian.
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