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Re: Status on Vendor Profile



Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> Secondly there is the handling of the "default" profile.  Originally I
> planned for this to be a symlink because it was easier (code-wise), but
> does git handle symlinks sanely?  If not, we lose the "git clone + set
> LINTIAN_ROOT + run" property we have now in master (even with the
> changes above).
>   Would it be better for us to instead rely on dpkg-vendor to supply a
> default profile name (either in general or in the absence of the default
> symlink)?

Git handles symlinks fairly well, but wouldn't that require Ubuntu to
fiddle with the symlink separately from the Debian package?  I really like
the idea of having a single *.deb that could be installed on either Debian
or Ubuntu, and while we could play with things in postinst, dpkg-vendor
feels cleaner to me.

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


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