Ansgar Burchardt writes:
> It seems strange to treat top-level directories differently: why
> should /usr be allowed to be a symlink, but /usr/local, /usr/lib or
> /usr/share/doc not? I can't come up with a better idea than that
> top-level directories are something like "driver letters".
I thi
On 19/2/19 8:50 pm, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
It seems strange to treat top-level directories differently: why
should /usr be allowed to be a symlink, but /usr/local, /usr/lib or
/usr/share/doc not? I can't come up with a better idea than that
top-level directories are something like "driver lette
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.3.0.2
Severity: normal
Policy 10.5 (Symbolic links) currently has two classes of requirements:
Symlinks between /${x} and /${x} (same top-level directory) must use
relative links; symlinks between /${x} and /${y} (different top-level
directories).
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