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Re: Lintian-induced changes in changelog, hardlinks?



Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:

> 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?

Some file systems don't support hardlinks, such as AFS, which causes
a lot of trouble if you want to mount a Debian system via AFS.

Falk




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