On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > As I understand it, your problem is that: > > * Upstream wants the upstream tarball to contain a copy of bootstrap > * Debian wants the copy of bootstrap removed from the source package > * But none of our source formats can replace files with symlinks ? > > ?
It turns out that Debian does not want the copy of bootstrap removed from the source package, and that it's ok to just replace them with symlinks using dh_link. That lowers massively the bar, and my level of despair. Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
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