Subject: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink

From: Andreas Enge <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:32:30 +0100

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':

I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.

Andreas