Policy:
In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be
relative, and symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory
into another should be absolute. (A top-level directory is a
sub-directory of the root directory `/'.)I don't remember the rationalle for policy wanting relative symlinks inside subdirectories, and I can't find it in the archives of debian-policy (and didn't want to read all of debian-devel before 1998 to find it there). > > On my system "/usr/share/games" is a symbolic link on other > > partition > > (because this directory taking a lot of disk space), so when game > > tries to open "/usr/share/games/wesnoth/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf" it > > gives "No such file or directory". The policy on symlinks allows top-level directories to be symlinked to elsewhere, but does not allow such symlinks of non-top-level directories. dh_link is exactly following policy here, but I will modify it to respect -X so you can ignore the policy (which is just a "should", so that'e only a normal severity bug if you do ignore it..) if you choose. Bind mounts are a much easier, modern, and better solution for relocating parts of the filesystem tree. -- see shy jo
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