Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>> Package: liblua50-dev
>>> Version: 5.0.2-6
>>> Severity: normal
>>> $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- '->'
>>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/lib/liblua50.so -> liblua50.so.5.0
>>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/include/lua50/lua -> .
>> Why is this a bug? I'm missing something, I think.
> Is it deliberate?! Why would one need such a symlink? It bothered me
> because my grep -r /usr/include/ gave me a recusion warning..
Does grep -r follow symlinks? That sounds kind of dangerous.
I haven't ever used or uploaded the package, so I'm not sure, but my guess
is that it's so that software built with -I/usr/include/lua50 that
includes files like #include <lua/foo.h> will find the header files.
There are other ways to accomplish the same thing, but I would have been
tempted to do that myself, if that is indeed the problem being solved.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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