On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 07:48:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:50:58AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > The proposal is to add a requirement to policy (Ron's wording):
> > A package may not make hard links to conffiles.
>
> Shouldn't this be in the packaging manual, rather than policy per se?
>
> I mean, symlinks to conffiles are broken if you use dpkg, no matter what,
> it's not really a policy decision.
Fair enough. Although the boundaries of policy and packaging manual
are still unclear; this is not the place to discuss this, though.
Julian
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