On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:36:37PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org> writes: > > > It only does so if the basename of the to be created symlink differs > > from the basename of the orig tarball since it's only purpose is to feed > > the right name to pristine-tar. So if wonder if the symlink is really > > created by git-import-orig? Could you provide a testcase? Or do you > > really intend to feed foo-<version>.tar.gz to pristine tar instead of > > foo_<version>.orig.tar.gz? > > The original tarball is foo-<version>.tar.xz, so the symlink is probably > needed for the pristine-tar import so that the file name is correct > (assuming that pristine-tar doesn't have a way of setting the file name > via a command-line option), so I guess I'm asking for the symlink to be > removed after that import is complete rather than left around.
Would putting the symlink next to foo-<version>.tar.xz in your build-area/ instaed of ../ be o.k. too? Cheers, -- Guido > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
