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Re: Replacing web assets with symlinks to packaged versions



On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> As I understand it, your problem is that:
> 
>  * Upstream wants the upstream tarball to contain a copy of bootstrap
>  * Debian wants the copy of bootstrap removed from the source package
>  * But none of our source formats can replace files with symlinks ?
> 
> ?

It turns out that Debian does not want the copy of bootstrap removed
from the source package, and that it's ok to just replace them with
symlinks using dh_link.

That lowers massively the bar, and my level of despair.


Enrico

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