svn-buildpackage fails when upstream tar is downloaded by uscan

[Chris Orser]

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04

svn-buildpackage:
  Installed: 0.8.5
  Candidate: 0.8.5
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.5 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected:

When building a package that needs to use uscan to fetch the upstream tar building a source package would complete with Success

What happened:

dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../<upstream_tar>

I've tracked down the issue:

The default behaviour of uscan is to create a symbolic link for *.orig.tar.gz pointing to the upstream tar file. The code that assigns the path for later use, uses abs_path to stripping the symbolic link out. I just changed the behaviour so a real path would be generated and the correct file would end up in the build area for dpkg-source.

I used --rename in my patch but --no-symlink works just as well if having the original upstream tar is important.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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