Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > I've come across it as I'm creating a Debian package of the Python > package in the same tree
I think a lot of people are doing this. > The broken symlinks are relative and in debian/tmp, and will point to > locations provided by other Debian packages once my package is > installed in the right location. It’s too bad that filelist goes into the debian subdirectory :( The Ubuntu-originated python-distutils-extra project had a similar problem and they switched from FileList.findall to os.walk to avoid it. What happens if you ignore the debian dir in MANIFEST.in? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12885> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com