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Our infrastructure migration is complete. Please remember to update your SSH remote to point to ssh.gitlab.freedesktop.org; SSH to the old hostname will time out. You should not see any problems apart from that. Please let us know if you do have any other issues.
This brings the behavior closer than what we currently have with autotools-based build system.
Meson does not currently have native support for symlinks. See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1602.