This patch is still waiting for one more second. It was previously
seconded by Helmut.
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard links in source
> packages that I think is ready for seconds. I'm copying Guillem for his
> review, in case there's some dpkg concern.
> From 12b014c4b930577a728dfb1254b64aac6a5eb1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:15:52 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Allow hard links in source packages
> It's not clear why this restriction was in place, and Debian
> included a package containing hard links without anyone noticing
> in the last release.
> ---
> policy/ch-source.rst | 11 ++---------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> index c7415fc..a7df539 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> @@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ source files in a package, as far as is reasonably possible. [#]_
> Restrictions on objects in source packages
> ------------------------------------------
>
> -The source package must not contain any hard links, [#]_ device special
> -files, sockets or setuid or setgid files.. [#]_
> +The source package must not contain device special files, sockets, or
> +setuid or setgid files. [#]_
>
> .. _s-debianrules:
>
> @@ -918,13 +918,6 @@ must not exist a file ``debian/patches/foo.series`` for any ``foo``.
> would be nice if the modification time of the upstream source would
> be preserved.
>
> -.. [#]
> - This is not currently detected when building source packages, but
> - only when extracting them.
> -
> - Hard links may be permitted at some point in the future, but would
> - require a fair amount of work.
> -
> .. [#]
> Setgid directories are allowed.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>