Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Package: liblua50-dev >>> Version: 5.0.2-6 >>> Severity: normal >>> $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- >>> '->' >>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/lib/liblua50.so -> >>> liblua50.so.5.0 >>> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/include/lua50/lua >>> -> . >> Why is this a bug? I'm missing something, I think. > Is it deliberate?! Why would one need such a symlink? It bothered me > because my grep -r /usr/include/ gave me a recusion warning.. Does grep -r follow symlinks? That sounds kind of dangerous. I haven't ever used or uploaded the package, so I'm not sure, but my guess is that it's so that software built with -I/usr/include/lua50 that includes files like #include <lua/foo.h> will find the header files. There are other ways to accomplish the same thing, but I would have been tempted to do that myself, if that is indeed the problem being solved. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
