Hello Florent,

* Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-25 10:25]:
> Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > In fact, I believe all symlinks should be relative, except top-level
> > symlinks.  And packages probably shouldn't ship any of those:)
> 
> Not exactly. cf. Policy § 10.5:
> 
> ,----
> | In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be
> | relative, and symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory into
> | another should be absolute. (A top-level directory is a sub-directory of
> | the root directory /.)
> | 
> | In addition, symbolic links should be specified as short as possible,
> | i.e., link targets like foo/../bar are deprecated.
> `----
> 
> dh_link does the right thing.

Ok thanks.
Regards Nico
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