Re: Lintian-induced changes in changelog, hardlinks? (Was: Re: Please consider bzip2 1.0.2-3 for sarge)
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Also, eh, I'm not convinced lintian is correct here in complaining,
> I'm a bit unsure. Lintian has warned for any hardlinks for a long time,
> but is it really bad to have them? Having them across different
> directories might cause problems when the user has those on different
> filesystems, but in the same directory? Opinions?
I don't see what harm they can make if they are in the same directory.
That's why I keep unzip and zipinfo hardlinked, for example. If upstream
does that way, and there is not a real need to change it, I prefer to keep
the upstream way of linking them.
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