Bug#682929: equivs: Confused by symlinks in Files

2016-06-08 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
Hi, any news on this? * Ian Zimmerman [2012-07-27 08:28:22 CEST]: > When I make foo a trivial shell script instead, it works: > [52+1]transitional-foo cat foo > #! /bin/sh > > exec /usr/bin/bar "$@" That workaround only works for when you want to do a symlink to something you want to ha

Bug#682929: equivs: Confused by symlinks in Files

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ian Zimmerman] > [50+1]transitional-foo$ grep '^Files:' control > Files: foo /usr/bin > [51+1]transitional-foo$ file foo > foo: broken symbolic link to `bar' [...] > Cannot copy foo to > /usr/local/var/git/transitional-sp/equivs.nI3JY_/install/0/foo:\ > No such file or directory Yeah, equivs

Bug#682929: equivs: Confused by symlinks in Files

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: equivs Version: 2.0.9 Severity: normal I tried to do something like this: [50+1]transitional-foo$ grep '^Files:' control Files: foo /usr/bin [51+1]transitional-foo$ file foo foo: broken symbolic link to `bar' The idea was to make a "compatibility" package for bar which would allow cal