[Ian Zimmerman] > [50+1]transitional-foo$ grep '^Files:' control > Files: foo /usr/bin > [51+1]transitional-foo$ file foo > foo: broken symbolic link to `bar' [...] > Cannot copy foo to > /usr/local/var/git/transitional-sp/equivs.nI3JY_/install/0/foo:\ > No such file or directory
Yeah, equivs uses the Perl File::Copy module, which doesn't seem to handle symlinks - just their targets. In other words, it's like 'cp' rather than 'cp -L'. Which brings up the question of whether equivs users would _expect_ behavior of 'cp' or behavior of 'cp -L'. I'm leaning toward 'cp -L' behavior, as you expected here, because if someone really needs to copy the target of the symlink, that's easy enough to do: create a symlink of the _directory_ that the target is in, rather than a link to the target itself. Thanks for the report, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
