The following `diff --unified` fixed the rsync error, however I don't
speak Python.
```
--- tar.py 2016-12-04 00:05:35.000000000 +0800
+++ tar.py.patched 2017-07-10 10:23:37.318949713 +0800
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
if os.path.isdir(srcdir):
debmake.yn.yn('remove "{}" directory in
tar'.format(srcdir), 'rm -rf ' + srcdir, yes)
# copy from parent to srcdir using hardlinks (with debian/* data)
- command = 'rsync -av --link-dest=' + os.getcwd() + '/' +
parent + ' ' + parent + '/. ' + srcdir
+ command = 'rsync -av --link-dest="' + os.getcwd() + '/' +
parent + '" "' + parent + '/." ' + srcdir
print('I: $ {}'.format(command), file=sys.stderr)
if subprocess.call(command, shell=True) != 0:
print('E: rsync -aCv failed.', file=sys.stderr)
```
2017-07-10 10:19 GMT+08:00 林博仁 <buo.ren....@gmail.com>:
> Whoops, the console output is not complete for some reason (`debmake
> --package directory-with-space --upstreamversion 1.0 --tar 2>&1 |
> xclip -in -selection clipboard), here's a manually pasted one
>
> ```
> I: sanity check of parameters
> W: -p "directory-with-space" != auto set value ""
> W: -u "1.0" != auto set value "0~1707100213"
> I: pkg="directory-with-space", ver="1.0", rev="1"
> I: make the upstream tarball with "tar --exclude=debian"
> I: pwd = "/tmp/directory with space"
> I: pwd = "/tmp"
> I: $ rsync -av --link-dest=/tmp/directory with space directory with
> space/. directory-with-space-1.0
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/with" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/space" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/directory" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/with" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: change_dir "/tmp//space" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> --link-dest arg does not exist: /tmp/directory
>
> sent 20 bytes received 63 bytes 166.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
> errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.1]
> E: rsync -aCv failed.
> ```
