Hi,
Okay. Forget what I said about quilt, I don't think it'd fix this
particular issue either.
Right now, the problem is in the original source (aka the .orig.tar).
The INSTALL file isn't even installed in the final binary, but *just
having a symlink in the original source is enough to make Lintian
complain*. Adding a debian/clean file only removes the INSTALL file from
the extracted tree, but not the .orig.tar.gz.
I could add a Lintian override if this is appropriate.
James
On 09/05/2015 10:24 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
On Sat, 9 May 2015 19:19:22 James Lu wrote:
Hi,
Did you try removing symlink from "debian/clean" file?
debian/clean? I don't see that mentioned anywhere in the New Maintainers
guide <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html>.
It is a part of debhelper suite. See dh_clean(1).
What does it have to do with quilt?
I was trying to use a quilt patch to replace the symlink with a copy of
the regular file, but that didn't work. I don't know what the regular
practice is for situations like this.
I did not look into your packaging but why not just ignore symlink and install
original file? Or replace symlink from override_dh_install? Repacking orig.tar
to drop symlink in unnecessary...
