Bug#695923: meld: crashes when copying symlinks

[Bálint Réczey]

tags 695923 confirmed fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi Julian,

Thank you for the report. Since there is a workaround (cp) I don't
plan back-porting
the mentioned fix, but wait for upstream to include it in an official release.

Cheers,
Balint

2012/12/14 Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:
> Package: meld
> Version: 1.6.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> meld can't copy directories containing symlinks:
> e.g.
> ls -oR tmp tmp2
> tmp:
> total 0
>
> tmp2/:
> total 0
> drwxrwxr-x 2 jtaylor 80 Dec 14 12:56 test
>
> tmp2/test:
> total 0
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jtaylor 0 Dec 14 12:56 a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 jtaylor 1 Dec 14 12:56 b -> a
>
> copying tmp2/test to tmp results in this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meld/dirdiff.py", line 836, in
> on_button_copy_left_clicked
>     self.copy_selected(-1)
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meld/dirdiff.py", line 679, in copy_selected
>     misc.copytree(src, dst)
>   File "/usr/lib/meld/meld/misc.py", line 288, in copytree
>     os.symlink(os.readlink(srcname, dstname))
>
>
> patch available in upstream commit 02588ecaa0c96b1b1b05ff2df13b7abd7f8b0966
>