On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>(moved to -devel, as this is offtopic for -release)
>
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:48:38PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>> * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev binaries:
>> postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link".
>> * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 binary: package-contains-hardlink
>> usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzcmp,bzegrep,bzfgrep,bzless}".
>
>It is not interesting to know that you fixed lintian warnings, what _is_
>interesting to know is what changes you made to the package, this is a
>changelog after all. That lintian prompted you to do the changes is
>irrelevant.Actual changes are trivial. >Does bzip2 now install multiple instances of all those binaries? No. >Are they all but one now symlinks to one particular version? -rwxr-xr-x root/root 26776 2005-01-09 22:24:40 ./usr/bin/bzip2 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1713 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzgrep -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1297 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzmore -rwxr-xr-x root/root 2105 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzdiff lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bunzip2 -> bzip2 lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzcat -> bzip2 lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzegrep -> bzgrep lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzfgrep -> bzgrep lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzless -> bzmore lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff >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? > >--Jeroen > >-- >Jeroen van Wolffelaar >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) >http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl Kind regards, Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux : :' : Free Operating System `. `' http://debian.org/ `- http://v7w.com/anibal
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