On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:21:45PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > To mistake a hard link for a zero-length file is sloppy coding.
> > This is a bug in lintian.
> >
>
> lintian gets its information from tar's output. A hardlink is shown as a zero
> byte file.
>
> Before you accuse sloppy coding you had better have a better way to do it and a
> patch.
With respect, I beg to differ.
If I were demanding that you do something TODAY, then yes, it would be
inconsiderate to not have a patch or a suggestion to offer.
But otherwise, I make no apologies for pointing out a bug without a
patch in hand. The author typically knows their software better than
I, and is usually in a better position to suss out the fix.
-Steve
P.S. That said, I note that tar *does* tell you about links:
steve@riemann{/tmp}tar tvf boo.tar
drwxr-xr-x steve/steve 0 2001-04-16 16:25:09 boo/
-rw-r--r-- steve/steve 3248 2001-04-16 16:24:56 boo/a
-rw-r--r-- steve/steve 0 2001-04-16 16:24:56 boo/b link to boo/a
-rw-r--r-- steve/steve 0 2001-04-16 16:25:05 boo/c
-rw-r--r-- steve/steve 359 2001-04-16 16:25:09 boo/d