bug#33573: Patch to replace symlinks with files

2022-12-30 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Bogdan, Someone reported a bug for this, so I simply gave it a try. Thank you! I didn't realize you were working on some of the old bugs. That is great! To bring this one in particular to fruition: can you check what happens when -c -a would need to overwrite a symlink? I think it should

bug#19614: Split packaging invocation to catch errors

2022-12-30 Thread Bogdan
Hello again. This time a patch that splits 'tar ... | gzip/bzip2/whatever' into 2 commands. Yes, this introduces a requirement for a "temporary" .tar file (and i-node allocation, and filesystem free space/performance, and ...), but gives gains (I hope they're gains): 1) when 'tar' exits wi

bug#33573: Patch to replace symlinks with files

2022-12-30 Thread Bogdan
Karl Berry , Fri Dec 30 2022 00:33:03 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time) Another simple patch from my side: when '--copy' given to '--add-missing', copy the standard files even if symlinks already exist. I am not sure about changing the behavior here. Although the behavior you p