Bug#418217: lintian: Please check for identical, non-linked binaries.
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.28
> Severity: wishlist
> lintian could check for identical binaries without the use of a symlink or
> hard link. For examples of what this should catch, see bugs 382724, 382728,
> and 382730.
It's not immediately clear to me that this is a bug. It saves a small
amount of space to link the binaries, but when the binaries are small,
it's not immediately obvious that deviation from upstream practice is
worth it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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