On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:30:45AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > 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.
Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a .deb file. To mistake a hard link for a zero-length file is sloppy coding. This is a bug in lintian. -Steve
