Aaron M. Ucko writes ("Bug#1076983: dgit: sometimes tries to run QF linkorigs
twice"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 11.10
> Severity: normal
>
> My attempts to run
>
> dgit push-source --collab-non-dgit
>
> for ncbi-tools6 6.1.20170106+dfsg2-3 a little while ago failed:
>
> dgit: error: (sym)link
> /home/amu/src/ncbi-tools6/ncbi-tools6-git/../ncbi-tools6_6.1.20170106+dfsg2.orig.tar.xz
> ncbi-tools6_6.1.20170106+dfsg2.orig.tar.xz: File exists
>
> Adding -D revealed that the problem to be that dgit was for some
> reason trying to run QF linkorigs twice -- once at startup and again
> for quiltification. I eventually managed to get past that by
> separately confirming that no fixups were needed and proceeding to add
> --quilt=nocheck. (--quilt=nofix was insufficient.)
Hrm. This does sound like a bug.
Do you have something resembling a Steps To Reproduce ? Could you
share the debug log ?
I think the linkorigs step is supposed to be idempotent.
Ian.
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