On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:03:01AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > Hello Marcus, > > what are the symlinks in > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386 > and subdirectories good for? > > Don't they point to a _Linux_ Debian distribution? > (e.g. ../../../../woody/main and ../../../../potato/main) > > -Farid. They point to binary-all. This trick is for OS-independent packages (like documentation, perl scripts etc.)