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 calling /usr/bin/bar as /usr/bin/foo instead (and, more importantly, would allow the installation of other packages that depend on foo, without installing the real foo). Unfortunately equivs gets seriously confused in this situation: [40+0]transitional-foo equivs-build control Cannot copy foo to /usr/local/var/git/transitional-sp/equivs.nI3JY_/install/0/foo:\ No such file or directory When I make foo a trivial shell script instead, it works: [52+1]transitional-foo cat foo #! /bin/sh exec /usr/bin/bar "$@" [53+1]transitional-foo equivs-build control dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_prep dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_install dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_installdeb dh_gencontrol dh_md5sums dh_builddeb dpkg-deb: building package `transition-foo' in `../transition-foo_1.0_all.deb'. The package has been created. Attention, the package has been created in the current directory, not in ".." as indicated by the message above! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.4.6-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages equivs depends on: ii debhelper 9.20120608 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.4.3 ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 ii make 3.81-8.2 ii perl 5.14.2-12 equivs recommends no packages. equivs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
