Bug#21884: marked as done (libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs)
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From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:07:44 +0200 (CEST)
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Subject: libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs
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Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
Severity: important
Many symlinks from /usr/lib/ to /lib/ are relative. This may break
installations where /usr/ is on a mounted partition.
>From upgrading-checklist.text.gz:
- Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
+ symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
(cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
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