Re: hard linking libboost copyright files
Hi,
Il 04/02/24 06:38, Muhammad Yaaseen ha scritto:
we see that the copyright for libboost debian packages are 2MB each and
are all the same. as per
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html section 12.5
<https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html%20section%2012.5>
we are not allowed to create symbolic links. the doubt I have is whether
I can hardlink these files and reduce the memory utilization.
As one of the Boost maintainers, I agree that's a problem. I wonder
whether the best way forward would rather to aggregate the copyright
data with more coarse granularity, so that the file is shorter. I am not
really sure that we need such a detailed thing. I spent considerable
time preparing that thing, but I am not sure that is the way forward.
At any rate, unfortunately I haven't had time to work on Debian packages
for some time, so the situation is still unsolved.
Gio.
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