(Further discussion should happen on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but please CC me.) During Manoj's "policy" talk at DebConf8, Gerfried opened the subject of the policy's stand on relative and absolute symlinks, which currently is "absolute if going through top-level, relative otherwise".
I wanted to give another data-point: Mailman switched its intra-/var/ symlinks to be absolute, because relative symlinks there broke setups of people that "moved" their /var/lib/mailman/ directory to another partition, not through mounting, but through replacing their /var/lib/mailman/ directory by a symlink to elsewhere - e.g. /u/mailman . This broke e.g. relative symlinks /var/lib/mailman/log to ../../logs/mailman. Bugs #413604 and #408855 contain the whole story. As policy doesn't technically *mandate* relative symlinks, but says "in general", we felt we could deviate from our own initiative. I must say I don't quite see in what scenario relative symlinks make something work that absolute symlinks do not make work. So, is there any reason at all to use relative symlinks? -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
