Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)]

llucius wrote:
: 
: On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected
: > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users        0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 
: > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected
: > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc'
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: If you figure out what's going on here can you let me know?  I've run 
: into the same problem while rebuilding for m68kers and was unable to 
: determine the cause.

Yes, dpkg-source bails out if tar reports hardlinks:

-rw-r--r-- root/users   0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 x link to y

Until Ian is back, you'll might use my diff as appended
    Heiko
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--- /usr/bin/dpkg-source	Thu Sep 12 02:20:10 1996
+++ /home/bmt/heiko/d/Debian/tools/dpkg-source	Thu Sep 19 16:42:57 1996
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 $dpkglibdir= "/usr/lib/dpkg";
-$version= '1.4.0'; # This line modified by Makefile
+$version= '1.3.14'; # This line modified by Makefile
 
 $sourcestyle= 'X';
 
@@ -710,6 +710,7 @@
                    "listed by tar as \`$_'");
         $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1;
         if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; }
+        if (/ link to /) { $_ =~ s/ link to .*//; }
         substr($_,length($_)-length($fn)-1) eq " $fn" ||
             &error("tarfile \`$tarfileread' contains unexpected object".
                    " listed by tar as \`$_', expected \`$fn'");