Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)  wrote on 20.09.96 in <[🔎] m0v3zeP-000DvIC@iva.lotte.sax.de>:

> Michael Meskes wrote:
> :
> : > dpkg-source -b joe-2.8
> : > 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_1.8.orig.tar.gz
> :
> : The same problem happens with sudo. It seems that Ian's scripts cannot
> : handle hard links.
>
> Perhaps someone should release dpkg_1.4.1 ...  If there are no
> voluntaries, I'd do it.

Shouldn't that be 1.4.0.1, according to the new rules?

MfG Kai