Re: dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source

[A Mennucc1 <debian@Tonelli.sns.it>]

hi

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:33:18PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Florian,
> 
> In your original mail, the question was what to do about symbolic
> links like "missing --> /usr/share/automake/missing".  The answer is:
> replace them by the file to which they are linked.

not necessarily

for two good reasons

1) they waste space in the Debian archives
2) the version that you generate in your PC may be obsolete wrt what is needed
 in another architecture

a.

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A Mennucc
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