- Package:
- dh-linktree
- Source:
- dh-linktree
- Submitter:
- Dmitry Smirnov
- Date:
- 2015-05-01 18:15:18 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Action "replace" do not work as expected on symlinks in destination.
Instead of being replaced (like files), symlinks are silently ignored so
naturally I am getting broken symlinks in the package if symlinks exist in
source tree folders that I am trying to replace using dh_linktree.
May be it would be better to modify dh_linktree to replace symlinks from
destination and invoke dh_linktree before dh_link to avoid collisions with
manually installed symlinks?
---
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent
characteristic in men.
-- George S. Patton---
Replacing pre-existing symlinks is OK I guess. Changing the order in the dh invocation is probably OK too. Feel free to commit a fix for this. I don't have a strong interest in dh_linktree and welcome any help. Cheers,
I'm more and more convinced that dh_linktree should be run before dh_link. I even had to override dh_link in one package to make sure that everything is working as expected... After all dh_link is happy to replace destination while dh_linktree is not... Thank you. I'll be happy to join as Uploader if that's OK with you.--- Much of humankind's intellectual and emotional struggle has been not for truth, but against truth. The advance of science has been sporadically fought against for thousands of years. -- C. W. Dalton, "The Right Brain and Religion"
Yes, sure!