Hi Mattia,
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:58 AM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
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> I don't think I have much voice here, but tbh I feel like this is totally artificially adding
> restraints that have no real reason to exist.
That sweeping statement does not cover either (1) the accidental
installation errors that can occur when people use cp(1) instead of
install(1) to copy files, or (2) the degradation of style and
placement logic that happens with repetitive paths.
> It's alright to think that at times this might be hiding a packaging error, but honestly most of
> those case are usually self-evident and IME very rarely are a real problem.
Please remember I am closing bugs for requested features. I do not
argue much because I find it unproductive. Instead, I implement
everything that is remotely reasonable.
I, too, have found repetitive paths annoying in the past, and have
seen installation errors in which a destination folder was
accidentally duplicated.
Let's reserve judgment until we see how the check performs in the
wild. In the end, you may well be right. But we don't know that yet.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner