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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:18:53 -0400
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 =C4=8Cech wrote:
>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>
> I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
> You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, =
for
> instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.

The phase should go after the 'unpack' phase rather than before
configure, but otherwise I agree with Andreas.

       Mark