Hi, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> (2017-07-30): > Now there is exactly one other part in the archive that makes > excessive use of symlinks: the installer. > > I would like to get rid of them within the installer. Most users > don't see them anyway, as HTTP does not provide informations about > symlinks.
Are we talking about these in debian-installer-images tarball? installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/initrd.gz installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/vmlinuz installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.0 installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.cfg installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.0 installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.cfg installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz installer-amd64/current in which case I'm assuming the 'current' symlink needs to stay anyway? > They can remain in the installer debs. Do you mean dini binaries, like debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64? KiBi. (Please keep me in cc.)
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