Guillem Jover wrote: > On dh_install, when using compat level >= 7, passing an absolute path > (like “$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp”) to --sourcedir, the first result of the > glob is a dangling symlink (like when it points to another directory, > which then makes it need to be an absolute path, for example > “debian/tmp/usr/lib/libfoo.so” pointing to “/lib/libfoo.so.1”), the > automatic fallback to look into “debian/tmp” makes the destination > path end up in something like “/debian/tmp/<path>”.
I have not quite managed to comprehand what you're saying above. Perhaps you could provide a simple example I can run? > Arguably this can be fixed by just dropping the --sourcedir > argument, but still, it breaks the packages pretty badly, thus the > serious severity. Are you saying that you filed a serious severity bug report on debhelper because you used it in a way that failed to build some packages? That sounds like severity inflation. -- see shy jo
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