Control: tags -1 wontfix On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:43:20 +0200 Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 9.20140228 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > Playing with a package, I lost quite some time because a file was overriden > by a broken symlink. > It would be nice if dh_link could fail if a file is already managed by > dh_install. > > For example: > > $ touch target > > --- foo.install --- > target /usr/share/ > > --- foo.links --- > usr/share/orig /usr/share/target > > In this case, I believe dh_link should fail with an error because the file > is already managed by dh_install. > > Thanks, > Sylvestre > > > [...]
It is a good idea. However, it seems rather unfeasible to get right given how independent the tools are from one another. Tagging wontfix in the absence of a patch (with tests for various corner cases). Thanks, ~Niels
