On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy. > > > > Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it. > > Where did you find it? > > Searched for the word "hard" in > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz.
Well, that addresses *how*. Close enough. I just pulled down policy 3.5.2.0 (the latest as far as I can tell), and I find 12 occurrences of "hard" in that file. It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in a _source_ package, but recall that we are talking about .deb files. I can find only two other references to hard links: * 11.7.3 forbids hard links to conffiles * 13.1 says you shouldn't make hard links to man pages Is there really some passage in policy that forbids hard links that I'm missing? Is there a newer policy document somewhere? -S
