How do I build a debian package whose sources include symbolic links outside of the source tree?
问题 I have a project whose source includes symbolic links to other source trees (notably, the CppUTest framework). I need to build a debian package out of my project, but dpkg-source will not follow the symbolic links. Digging further, I believe this is because the default behavior for tar is not to dereference symbolic links unless explicitly told to (with -h ). I was unable to find a way to pass this extra option to tar when building the debian source tarball. So what am I doing wrong here? Is