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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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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