On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 21:29, Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I might be skating on thin ice here, but here goes, as a developer, and > the way I write programs to the level of user friendliness required where I > work, in my view what is happening is badly written code, to use > terminology that is common where I work, it should not be producing the > extra guf that is incidental to what it has been asked to do, which is > delete dangling symlinks. > I don't think you're on thin ice, but software works the way it works. This list is for the Fedora distro. The Fedora distro is a collection of lots of upstream projects, packaged in a specific way. The project will have a degree of influence in certain behaviours or package selections, but probably not at the level of granularity where someone thinking a specific binary should behave differently will change things? The symlinks package itself looks pretty moribund. [wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qf `which symlinks` symlinks-1.7-10.fc40.x86_64 [wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -qi symlinks Name : symlinks Packager : Fedora Project Vendor : Fedora Project URL : http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/ Bug URL : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/symlinks <some output snipped> [wmcdonald@fedora ~ ]$ rpm -q --changelog symlinks * Sat Jan 27 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.7-10 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.7-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jan 21 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.7-8 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jul 23 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.7-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild The archive it appears to be packaged from states https://www.ibiblio.org/software/linux/ I guess, as a developer, if you wanted to improve it, you could move the archive sources to an active repo, start improving it with what you want and petition to see if it could be actively updated again? (I have zero idea of the politics behind this, but it's open source software.)
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