On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:15:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > 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!
Thank you all for your replies. FYI, lintian trunk currently warns for hardlinks across directories (AFS is mentioned in the rationale) and in /etc only. The latter is in policy (breaks conffiles, breaks with some editors). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
