Hi! On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 02:04:08 +0000, peter green wrote: > dgit claimed I was creating a new symlink and that creation of a new > symlink could not be represented by 3.0 (quilt). So I removed the > symlink, dpkg-source called by dgit then warned about "deletion" of > said symlink. Furthermore when I extracted the resulting source > package the symlink reappeared.
> After some tracking down it seems a patch *can* create a symlink and > that both dpkg-source and "quilt push" will happily apply such a patch. Yes, patch and dpkg-source can, via git format patches. > quilt pop on the other hand is not so happy. Sometimes it will remove > the patch, sometimes it will complain that it "won't remove cleanly". I > haven't figured out the exact trigger. If the symlink target has changed, I'd expect that to happen. If you have found other time when this can happen this could be a bug in quilt. Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss