Guillem Jover writes:
> I'm not really sure what the footnote really refers to, TBH, as I'm not
> aware of any such check, or what would require a fair amount of
> work.
Yeah, it seems to be a mystery to everyone. There is an explicit entry in
the debian/changelog of Policy from Ian Jackson abo
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 1:45 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
> This patch is still waiting for one more second. It was previously
> seconded by Helmut.
>
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
> > Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard links
Hi!
On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 19:20:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes:
> > The fact that this has gone unnoticed in a source package in an existing
> > release makes a pretty strong argument that nothing in Debian cares and
> > we should just remove the constraint.
>
> Here is a pa
This patch is still waiting for one more second. It was previously
seconded by Helmut.
Russ Allbery writes:
> Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard links in source
> packages that I think is ready for seconds. I'm copying Guillem for his
> review, in case there's some dpkg concern.
Hi Russ,
On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 07:20:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> From 12b014c4b930577a728dfb1254b64aac6a5eb1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Russ Allbery
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:15:52 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Allow hard links in source packages
>
> It's not clear why this restrict
Russ Allbery writes:
> The fact that this has gone unnoticed in a source package in an existing
> release makes a pretty strong argument that nothing in Debian cares and
> we should just remove the constraint.
Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard links in source packages
that I think
> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes:
Russ> Sam Hartman writes:
>> I think that hard links in a source package are fine provided
>> that breaking the hard links would not either break the build or
>> provide an unreasonable space multiplier.
Russ> I agree with you that those
Helmut Grohne writes:
> Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement
> added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph
> nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine. lintian does not
> check this property. sugar-log-activity/38 is an exampl
> "Bill" == Bill Allombert 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 rational
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:44:42AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
>
> Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may
> Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have
> Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share /u
> "Giacomo" == Giacomo Catenazzi writes:
Giacomo> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may
Giacomo> fail across different filesystems, and we supported to have
Giacomo> e.g. / /usr /usr/share /usr/local /var (and various /var/*)
Giacomo> /home /tmp /boot etc on
Hello Helmut
On 12.10.2020 19:30, Helmut Grohne wrote:
You appear to be talking about binary packages. This bug is about source
packages. When you unpack a source package, you are creating a directory
hiearchy rooted at the point where you start unpacking. There is not
possibly any reasonable w
Hi cate,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> The rationale was probably similar so symlinks: they may fail across
> different filesystems, and we supported to have e.g. / /usr /usr/share
> /usr/local /var (and various /var/*) /home /tmp /boot etc on different file
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> > > Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems
> > What do you mean?
>
> If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a
> different filesystems
Not really, please read
https://freedesktop.org/w
On 12.10.2020 16:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems
What do you mean?
If I remember correctly, now we do not support / and /usr to be on a
different filesystems, and I think
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> Now we are more strict on where we can split filesystems
What do you mean?
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Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement
added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph
nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine.
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Jakub stumbled into the "No hard links in source packages" requirement
added around 1996 and couldn't make sense of it. Neither could Christoph
nor myself. tar does support hard links just fine. lintian does not
check this property. sugar-
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