Bug#970234: consider dropping "No hard links in source packages"
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "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?
It is good to see I am not the only one left who remember about umsdos!
I am pretty sure we were concerned about source packages being
unpackable on non Debian systems, though.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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