error creating hard link

[Andreas Voegele <voegelas@gmx.net>]

Hi,

I've just built my own GNUstep package.  When I try to install the
package I get the following error message.

Unpacking gnustep-base (from .../gnustep-base_1.7.1_i586-linux.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/tmp/sos/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.7.1_i586-linux.deb (--install):
 error creating hard link `./usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/Resources/gnustep-base/NSTimeZones/zones/Australia/Yancowinna': No such file or directory

The package is not built with the Debian packaging tools.  But I have
built more than 200 packages in the same way and I have never gotten
this error message before.

Do I have to do anything special if a package contains hard links?

I use dpkg 1.10.10 but the above error also occurs when I use dpkg
1.9.21.