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Bug#22935: PROPOSED] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles



On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:50:58AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> The proposal is to add a requirement to policy (Ron's wording):
>   A package may not make hard links to conffiles.

Shouldn't this be in the packaging manual, rather than policy per se?

I mean, symlinks to conffiles are broken if you use dpkg, no matter what,
it's not really a policy decision.

Cheers,
aj

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