On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Thomas Koch wrote:
> I've obtained the upstream tarball with uscan. That means, that uscan
> creates either a symlink named package_version.orig.tar.gz or with the
> --rename version renames the upstream tarball this way.
> When I afterwards call git-import-orig with --filter
> --filter-pristine-tar and --pristine-tar, I get:
> 
> Cannot symlink '../solr_1.4.0.orig.gbp.tar.gz' to
> '../solr_1.4.0.orig.tar.gz': File exists

On Thu, 06 Jun 2013, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Note that it also happens when running "git-import-orig --uscan". The

I have also been bitten by this multiple times... it's very annoying.

Can this 6-year old bug be fixed?

An easy way out would be to create the appropriate symlink in a new
temporary directory. Or possibly remove any pre-existing symlink.

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