Re: lintian -i file.changes error
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:30:45AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
> >> > >
> >>
> >> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in a _source_ package,
> >> but recall that we are talking about .deb files.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm wrong. It was only in source packages that they are
> > forbidden.
> >
>
> However, as I stated in my reply when this came up on lintian -- hard links are
> BAD. Symlinks were invented for a reason.
Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a
.deb file.
To mistake a hard link for a zero-length file is sloppy coding.
This is a bug in lintian.
-Steve
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