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Patch fails when patching files inside symlinked directory

Bug #1438997 reported by Khem Raj
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 15.04 is sufferring from

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44251

which is reported to be fixed in patch version 2.7.5 but 15.04 is shipping 2.7.4
its a regression as compared to 14.10

Can this be fixed by backporting the relevant pieces from 2.7.5 please ?

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Khem Raj (khem-raj) wrote :

FWIW this is the needed patch

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=ef609c26b22e5d6ea3c891e4c87ab1c679146f5f
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=7a77ae9f81955a8d83f9c8eacc10eee335fc9d46

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Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote :

Marking as invalid since 15.04 ended up shipping with patch 2.7.5-1

Changed in patch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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