Nishanth Aravamudan writes ("Bug#861364: dgit: empty directories are not
representable"):
> At least src:software-properties has at one time had empty directories
> in the source package, e.g. in 0.96.20.5 in xenial on Ubuntu, and git
> (and thus dgit (via import-dsc) and the Ubuntu git importer) fail to
> properly represent the srcpkg's contents in the import.
>
> Specifically, tests/aptroot/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ is missing from either
> import.
Presumably the package breaks without this ?
> Given that git does not represent empty directories, I'm not sure what
> we should do here?
Call it a bug in git ? :-) I know that doesn't really help.
My initial plan was to simply ignore empty directories and hope that
it didn't matter. If they do matter then we probably don't have a
good answer.
Ian.
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