On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:21:45PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > To mistake a hard link for a zero-length file is sloppy coding.
> > This is a bug in lintian.
> >
>
> lintian gets its information from tar's output. A hardlink is shown as a zero
> byte file.
So lintian does something like ar <options> .deb; tar ztf data.tar.gz?
If so, could lintian do something like dpkg-deb -c .deb, which
indicates when files are hard links ("linkname links to filename") in
its output (and soft links with "linkname -> filename").
Julian
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