>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes:
Bill> I am pretty sure we were concerned about source packages being Bill> unpackable on non Debian systems, though. And I think we probably still are. I was trying to capture the concerns there in the part of my message you trimmed. My rationale is that I don't think we want to work around an upstream build system or repack sources just because it has hard links. On the other hand I also don't think we want to depend on hard links being preserved.