Bug#421345: lintian: does not alert on non-conffile symlink in /etc
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:42:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Now, we could warn on symlinks in /etc in general, not to tell people to
> make them conffiles but rather to point out this possible bug, but in that
> case the bug only triggers if the symlink replaces something that was
> previously a file, and lintian doesn't have a way of knowing that.
Lintian could warn on symlinks in /etc that point back to /etc. I am
not sure whether other cases may be dangerous as well. I trust your
judgment whether it makes sense to implement the check or not.
Greetings
Marc
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