[Tts-project] Bug#1038432: /run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher symlinks to /run/speech-dispatcher which loops

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: speech-dispatcher
Version: speech-dispatcher/stable,now 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 amd64
Owner: Winston Gate <wgate at okbiz.net>

While running backups of freebsd system with rsync I noticed the compat/ubuntu
and recursive directories and traced this to a symlink toi /run/
speech-dispatcher which contains a symlink .speech-dispatcher to itself. This
of course causes a recursive loop and apparently rsync just doesn't copy the
symlink but follows and seems like there isn't a flag to prevent this unless
its on another tree. scp -r by default also follows the link.

Advise removal of the .speech-dispatcher link or converting it to a directory
and adjusting packages accordingly.

Debian Version: 11.6
Linux version 5.10.0-21-amd64
gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21)
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.31-13+deb11u5) 2.31

John Saario aka sjohn
wgate at okbiz.net
https://alamak.com