[Bug 2167118] Re: cp -R fails when a file has the same basename as its parent

[Thy Schepers]

this has been fixed upstream and merged into uutils/coreutils main:
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/14530

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Title:
  cp -R fails when a file has the same basename as its parent

Status in rust-coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Reproducer:

  set -e
  mkdir demo && cd demo
  echo hi > file
  echo hi > demo          # same basename as the directory itself
  /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/cp -R . ../out

  
  if ../out is not already present, this will fail with

  cp: './demo' -> '../out/': Is a directory

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