On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Also, eh, I'm not convinced lintian is correct here in complaining, > I'm a bit unsure. Lintian has warned for any hardlinks for a long time, > but is it really bad to have them? Having them across different > directories might cause problems when the user has those on different > filesystems, but in the same directory? Opinions?
I don't want to speak for past lintian maintainers but I seem to remember that the lintian philosophy that support this check is that hard-links in packages should be exceptional and deserve an lintian-override. (The same hold for e.g. suid/sgid binary.) My personnal opinion is that hard-links inside /usr/bin are OK. Thanks for maintaining lintian by the way! Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. PS: speaking of lintian, I feel the new check description-synopsis-starts-with-a-capital-letter has too many false positive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
