Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Bill" == Bill Allombert writes: Bill> I am pretty sure we were concerned about source packages being Bill> unpackable on non Debian systems, though. And I think we probably still are. I was trying to capture the concerns there in the part of my message you trimmed. My

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi writes: > > Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may > Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have > Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi writes: Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share /usr/local /var (and various /var/*) Giacomo> /home /tmp /boot etc

Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

2020-10-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello Helmut On 12.10.2020 19:30, Helmut Grohne wrote: You appear to be talking about binary packages. This bug is about source packages. When you unpack a source package, you are creating a directory hiearchy rooted at the point where you start unpacking. There is not possibly any reasonable