On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>(moved to -devel, as this is offtopic for -release)
>
>On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:48:38PM +1100, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>> * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev binaries:
>> postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link".
>> * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 binary: package-contains-hardlink
>> usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzcmp,bzegrep,bzfgrep,bzless}".
>
>It is not interesting to know that you fixed lintian warnings, what _is_
>interesting to know is what changes you made to the package, this is a
>changelog after all. That lintian prompted you to do the changes is
>irrelevant.
Actual changes are trivial.
>Does bzip2 now install multiple instances of all those binaries?
No.
>Are they all but one now symlinks to one particular version?
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 26776 2005-01-09 22:24:40 ./usr/bin/bzip2
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1713 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzgrep
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1297 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzmore
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 2105 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzdiff
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bunzip2 -> bzip2
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzcat -> bzip2
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzegrep -> bzgrep
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzfgrep -> bzgrep
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzless -> bzmore
lrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-09 22:24:33 ./usr/bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
>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?
>
>--Jeroen
>
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Kind regards,
Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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