On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy. >> > > >> >> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in a _source_ package, >> but recall that we are talking about .deb files. > > Sorry, I'm wrong. It was only in source packages that they are > forbidden. >
However, as I stated in my reply when this came up on lintian -- hard links are BAD. Symlinks were invented for a reason.
