Re: Summary of current experimental tags
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> Demoted the severity to pedantic.
> Though why do you want the certainty demoted? Given the rarity of
> (accidential) md5sums collisons I would say the check is practically
> certain (i.e. if the tag is emitted, the files listed are almost
> certainly identical).
The files really are duplicates, but they aren't actually bugs. In other
words, for some of these cases, I would consider a Debian package that
hard-linked or symlinked those files together to be inferior to one that
didn't, even though the files are identical. (For the Doxygen files, for
instance, such a package wouldn't save any appreciable amount of space and
would be far more complex for no real benefit.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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