>>"Steve" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a
Steve> .deb file.
There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions,
and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target
mach
>>"Steve" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a
Steve> .deb file.
There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions,
and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target
mac
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
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
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 somethin
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 somethi
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.
>
> Before you accuse sl
>
> 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.
Before you accuse sloppy coding you had better have a better way to do it and a
patch.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:30:45AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > > > And note that hard links are forbid
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.
>
> Before you accuse s
* "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry"
| However, as I stated in my reply when this came up on lintian --
| hard links are BAD. Symlinks were invented for a reason.
I believe you mean something like 'multiple hard links to the same
file are bad'. A single hard link is _very_ useful, imho. ;-) And
multiple
On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
>> > >
>>
>> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in
>
> 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.
Before you accuse sloppy coding you had better have a better way to do it and a
patch.
--
To UNSUBSCRI
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:30:45AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >> > > > And note that hard links are forbi
* "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry"
| However, as I stated in my reply when this came up on lintian --
| hard links are BAD. Symlinks were invented for a reason.
I believe you mean something like 'multiple hard links to the same
file are bad'. A single hard link is _very_ useful, imho. ;-) And
multiple
On 16-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
>> > >
>>
>> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links i
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
> > >
>
> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in a _source_ package,
> but recall that we ar
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
> > >
>
> It is true that section 5.6 forbids hard links in a _source_ package,
> but recall that we a
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
> >
> > Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it.
> > Where did you find it?
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
>
> Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it.
> Where did you find it?
Searched for the word "hard" in
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.tex
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
> > > usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors
> > > N:
> > > N: package contains a file which is empty
> > > N:
>
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
> >
> > Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it.
> > Where did you find it
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.
>
> Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it.
> Where did you find it?
Searched for the word "hard" in
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.te
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
> > usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors
> > N:
> > N: package contains a file which is empty
> > N:
>
> Well, this ought to be obvious: is the file empty? :-)
>
> Actually, t
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
> > > usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors
> > > N:
> > > N: package contains a file which is empty
> > > N:
>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
> > usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors
> > N:
> > N: package contains a file which is empty
> > N:
>
> Well, this ought to be obvious: is the file empty? :-)
>
> Actually,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:18:43PM +0200, Christian SPENER wrote:
>
>
>
> this are my last errors, don't know how to fix them
> also the programmer of the program doesn't know how to fix them, so someone
> can giveme some hints, where the problem could be?
[...]
> W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:18:43PM +0200, Christian SPENER wrote:
>
>
>
> this are my last errors, don't know how to fix them
> also the programmer of the program doesn't know how to fix them, so someone
> can giveme some hints, where the problem could be?
[...]
> W: ktouch: zero-byte-file
this are my last errors, don't know how to fix them
also the programmer of the program doesn't know how to fix them, so someone
can giveme some hints, where the problem could be?
thx
chris
# lintian -i ktouch_1.0-8_i386.changes
warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with ro
this are my last errors, don't know how to fix them
also the programmer of the program doesn't know how to fix them, so someone
can giveme some hints, where the problem could be?
thx
chris
# lintian -i ktouch_1.0-8_i386.changes
warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with r
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