control: severity -1 wishlist control: reassign -1 devscripts control: affects -1 apt-listdifferences control: retitle -1 [debdiff] option to avoid dereferencing symlinks
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Achim Schaefer wrote: > when running apt-listdifferences, it happens sometimes, diff is comparing > data outside the tmp source dir. > E.g. this now happens with docker.io: > diff: /tmp/BsDox6gACB/docker.io-1.3.2~dfsg1/pkg/symlink/testdata/fs/a/d: > Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > diff: > /tmp/BsDox6gACB/docker.io-1.3.2~dfsg1/pkg/symlink/testdata/fs/a/e/h/.kde/socket-data: > Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > This is basically in my home dir. > Here one of the examples, what we see in the original source: > root@data:/tmp/BsDox6gACB/docker.io-1.3.2~dfsg1/pkg/symlink/testdata/fs# ls -l > insgesamt 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Nov 24 18:38 a > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 24 18:38 b > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Nov 24 18:38 g -> > ../../../../../../../../../../../../root > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Nov 24 18:38 i -> a > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 24 18:38 j debdiff would need to provide an option that passes --no-dereference to diff. Best wishes, Mike
