Re: lintian reports & relative/absolute symlinks
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> I agree that the policy should be clarified. In short: Symbolic links
> _within_ a top level directory should be relative, symbolic links
> _between_ top level directories should be absolute.
>
> Examples how things should be set up according to this policy:
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1/foo.1x.gz ->
> ../../../man/man7/undocumented.7.gz
> (relative link)
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/foo/data -> /var/lib/foo
> (absolute link)
Assuming of course that X11R6 isn't a symlink to something. My
understanding was that what causes the destruction is attempting to go
backwards over a symlink path that's only valid one way. What we need
is a list of symlinkable directories that we're willing to support.
All of the baselevel ones perhaps by default, but also /usr/local may
actually be a pointer to someplace different (especially when /usr is
RO), and sometimes I think also /usr/X11R6, for people that want to
keep X files on a different partition from the rest of the system. If
we're not going to support people who move things around in this
fashion, it should probably be specified that way in policy.
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