Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> writes:

    Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may
    Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have
    Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share /usr/local /var (and various /var/*)
    Giacomo> /home /tmp /boot etc on different file systems. Now we are
    Giacomo> more strict on where we can split filesystems (and disk are
    Giacomo> larger, and LVM simplified much of filesystem handling).

But I think even in 1996, we anticipated a single source package
(*source package*) being unpacked on a single filesystem.
Perhaps we were worried about filesystems like umsdos?


I think that hard links in a source package are fine provided that
breaking the hard links would not either break the build or provide an
unreasonable space multiplier.