On 2014-03-30 18:59:22, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Package: monkeysign
> Version: 1.1
> Severity: minor
>
> The monkeysign and monkeyscan binaries are identical:
>
>   :~$ ls -l /usr/bin/monkeys*n
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1547 Sep 30 15:48 /usr/bin/monkeyscan
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1547 Sep 30 15:48 /usr/bin/monkeysign
>   :~$ sha256sum /usr/bin/monkeys*n
>   3a2257c373a60c2791e9276ea037e077a378a6b4c55b227a4813d8505aa385d6  
> /usr/bin/monkeyscan
>   3a2257c373a60c2791e9276ea037e077a378a6b4c55b227a4813d8505aa385d6  
> /usr/bin/monkeysign
>
> One should be a symlink to the other, rather than duplicated binaries.
>
> It seems like in the source one is a symlink, but maybe setup.py copies the
> destination file?

Indeed, distutils follows symlink.

I would need to make a separate command to copy those files over. Which
is annoying and i am lazy. We are likely to rewrite those commands in
2.x anyways, so i am not sure i want to bother with this right now.

THanks for the report

a.


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