Bug#454239: symlink-should-be-relative: warning instead of error

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11223 March 1977, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> I read that as "it's ok if you have a good reason". Therefore, I think >> a lintian warning would be more appropriate than an error. Attached >> patch implements this change. Please consider applying it. >

Bug#454239: symlink-should-be-relative: warning instead of error

2007-12-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tuesday 4 December 2007 16:51, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I read that as "it's ok if you have a good reason". Therefore, I think a > > lintian warning would be more appropriate than an error. Attached patch > > implements this change. Please consider applying it. > > That seems to be a good case f

Bug#454239: symlink-should-be-relative: warning instead of error

2007-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11223 March 1977, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> 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 read

Bug#454239: symlink-should-be-relative: warning instead of error

2007-12-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.36 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi! In my package "mailman", I have converted two symlinks from relative to absolute. The relative symlinks gave trouble for a number of different users that had symlinked the targets themselves, and linking to relative links gives