On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:00:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Is there actually a good reason for the symlinks, which I am not > seeing? The best reason I have come up with so far is that it allows the > link to be renamed to a higher/lower number while still having the file > contents updated by dpkg.
FWIW, it looks like Ubuntu's debhelper has already done away with the symlinks: http://patches.ubuntu.com/d/debhelper/debhelper_5.0.37.3ubuntu1.patch I think it's the best solution for Debian too; it's a simple, effective way, and if an administrator really needs to move up and down (for what reason?), they can simply make a new file. (It's not ideal, but it's a lot better than what we have currently.) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
