On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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").
>
Either way the info is there, the parser of the file needs to be changed to
care. Which means me allocating time away from lintian 2.x. Since this is a
bug that only seems to hit about 5 people, it is on my todo list, but may not
be fixed in the 1.x series.
