Debian Bug report logs - #773762
[debdiff] option to avoid dereferencing symlinks

Package: devscripts; Maintainer for devscripts is Devscripts Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for devscripts is src:devscripts (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: apt-listdifferences

Reported by: Achim Schaefer <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:06:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Subject: Re: Bug#773762: apt-listdifferences: diff goes outside package tree
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]>
To: Michael Gilbert <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:01:25 +0100
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Your reply was not CCed to either the devscripts package alias or the
submitter. I had to manually download the mbox from the BTS in order to
reply. Please remember to CC people when reassigning. :-(

On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 21:44 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> control: severity -1 wishlist
> control: reassign -1 devscripts
> control: affects -1 apt-listdifferences
> control: retitle -1 [debdiff] option to avoid dereferencing symlinks
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Achim Schaefer wrote:
> > when running apt-listdifferences, it happens sometimes, diff is comparing data outside the tmp source dir.
[...]
> debdiff would need to provide an option that passes --no-dereference to diff.

Regards,

Adam

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