Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
Russ> Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
>> I think that hard links in a source package are fine provided
>> that breaking the hard links would not either break the build or
>> provide an unreasonable space multiplier.
Russ> I agree with you that those would be undesirable properties,
Russ> but are they likely and important enough to have it be worth
Russ> retaining a section talking about this, as opposed to using
Russ> the "not every bug is a Policy violation" rule? We do pay a
Russ> (small) complexity cost for each additional requirement we put
Russ> in Policy, so I'm tempted to just drop this entirely and bank
Russ> the complexity reduction.
You have me sold on not likely enough to matter.
I do think that having the build break (or worse produce bad results) on
hard link breaking would be a really important problem because of how
much it violates the principle of least surprise, but I agree that it is
unlikely enough that it need not be covered in policy.
--Sam
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