[Quilt-dev] [Bug#295913: quilt: Quilt doesn't properly follow symlinked source files]

[Martin Quinson]

Hello,

I just received this in the Debian BTS. Which of the two proposed solutions
should we take? Please keep the bug in CC while answering.

Thanks for your time, Mt.

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Subject: Bug#295913: quilt: Quilt doesn't properly follow symlinked source files
X-Debian-PR-Package: quilt
From: Marc Singer <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
X-Mailer: reportbug 3.2
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:26:43 -0800

Package: quilt
Version: 0.37-4
Severity: normal


Using quilt add or quilt edit on a symlinked file confuses quilt.  As
it doesn't recognize that the named file is a symlink to a source
file, quilt fails to track changes to that source file.  This is
probably easily solved by either disallowing add/edit to a symlinked
file, or more robustly, following the symlink and adding the path of
the real file instead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages quilt depends on:
ii  bzip2                       1.0.2-1      A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  diffstat                    1.35-1       produces graph of changes introduc
ii  gawk                        1:3.1.4-2    GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  gettext                     0.14.1-6     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  patch                       2.5.9-2      Apply a diff file to an original

-- no debconf information


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