Dear dpkg devs, In my build setup I'm unpacking packages in a wheezy environment, and only then go to a sid chroot to build those packages. This has started to cause a bit of a headache with a handful of packages that introduce symlinks through quilt patches, resulting in errors like this: dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to sfst-1.4.6h/NEWS: dpkg-source: error: new version is plain file dpkg-source: error: old version is symlink to ChangeLog dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source So it seems that wheezy's dpkg ignores this: diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 120000 while sid's dpkg fully interprets the this-is-a-symlink bit. So mainly out of curiosity I was wondering when support for this had been added? Obviously I would be really nice to see that backported, but I guess there is no urgency here. Best, Michael PS.: Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed.
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