Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:13:44PM +0000, Luis Arocha -data- wrote:
> I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against
> debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed.
[...]
> The files in /usr/share/glade/gnome are symlinks to corresponding files in
> /usr/share/aclocal/gnome, the problem as I see it is that these symlinks
> are relative (../../aclocal/gnome/*), so when glademm copies those
> symlinks to the macros directory, they break.
>
> I see two solutions:
> * glademm should follow the symlinks instead and copy the real files.
> * glade-gnome should have absolute (/usr/share/...) links instead.
>
> The way I see it, the easiest solution is to let glade-gnome have absolute
> links instead, hence I mailed the report here.
It's quite obvious now, wrt this bug and bug#84067, that policy is not
right on symlinks; absolute symlinks should be allowed, because otherwise
people with different filesystem hierarchies will have things break,
and other boundary cases (like this one) don't work either.
What is the reason that policy dictates "relative symlinks only, unless
referring to another top-level directory"?
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