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. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
