Comment 16 for bug 2003388
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| Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote Re: [Bug 2003388] Re: [SRU] REGRESSION: ubuntustudio-default-settings 22.04.26.1 breaks Ubuntu Studio login | #16 |
> FWIW, the debdiff is blind to symlinks. For example, if you make a
> change to file that is symlinked from elsewhere in the same package,
> then debdiff will present that as both files changed. Similarly, if a
> file is dereferenced and replaced by an equivalent real file, debdiff
> won't see that. So debdiffs don't round trip correctly in the case of
> symlinks. This makes use of debdiff to perform reviews dangerous, too.
Thanks, Robie. That was my suspicion, and also why I 1) Verified in a PPA prior
to upload, 2) Verified the tarball was correct prior to upload, and 3) Verified
the tarball was correct after upload. Everything looks correct this time
around.
It would be nice if debdiffs weren't blind to symlinks and that they could see
if there was a change from a symlink to an actual file, but I'm not sure how
that would get implemented.