deckdebuild - includes target of symlinks in source - rather than the symlinks

[JedMeister]

I've just noticed that when package source includes symlinks, instead of retaining the symlinks the target of the symlink is included in the package. E.g in di-live source:

# ls -l rootfs/e2fsprogs-udeb/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

total 484
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 Jan  3 01:41 libe2p.so.2 -> libe2p.so.2.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  44720 Jan  3 01:41 libe2p.so.2.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Jan  3 01:41 libext2fs.so.2 -> libext2fs.so.2.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446672 Jan  3 01:41 libext2fs.so.2.4

But in a system with di-live installed:

# ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libe2p.so*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44720 Mar  1 23:43 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libe2p.so.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44720 Mar  1 23:43 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libe2p.so.2.3

# ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libext2fs.so*

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446672 Mar  1 23:43 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libext2fs.so.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446672 Mar  1 23:43 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libext2fs.so.2.4

In the case of di-live it's not really a big deal as it's only used at install time and then is removed; plus it only adds ~8kb to the size of the installed package (and less in the binary package on the mirror). But it's still worth looking into when (if!) we get a chance as perhaps it may be an issue elsewhere?