Bug#989033: equivs-build fails when multiple 'Links:' have the same filename

[Andrew Pam]

Package: equivs
Version: 2.2.0
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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    * What led up to the situation?

    Using equivs to build a package that contains multiple 'Links:'
    values that reference the same target filename with different paths

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
      ineffective)?

    Example:

      Links: /var/lib/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
       ../sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail

    * What was the outcome of this action?

    equivs-build fails with 'File exists' error

    * What outcome did you expect instead?

    equivs-build should include all requested links

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
   APT prefers focal-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 
'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-54-generic (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages equivs depends on:
ii  debhelper  12.10ubuntu1
ii  dpkg-dev   1.19.7ubuntu3
ii  fakeroot   1.24-1
ii  make       4.2.1-1.2
ii  perl       5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2

equivs recommends no packages.

equivs suggests no packages.

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mailto:andrew at sericyb.com.au          Andrew Pam
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