Bug#336560: vim loops forever in readlink on startup when opening symlinked file with two parent directories of the same name

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:56:49PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> Ok. Figured things out.  That bug is now fixed.  I've put it through
> some testing.  I'm pretty confident about this patch, but I wouldn't
> mind releasing this to experimental first to get a bit wider testing.
> Once we release this to unstable, I'll forward the patch to Bram.

I consider that patch a showstopper for the upload in unstable: either
we fix it or we revert the original patch reopening the symlink bug (of
course IMHO). That said I don't think it is wort an upload to
experimental just for it.

I will test it, if it works and you're confident in it, for me it is
fine to release the svn version of vim (remember that joeyh is waiting
for us for the vim-tiny in base proposal).

Cheers.

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