On 7/12/24 10:52, Will McDonald wrote:
On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 at 23:39, Stephen Morris <steve.morris...@gmail.com> wrote:On 6/12/24 09:35, Will McDonald wrote:On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 21:29, Stephen Morris <steve.morris...@gmail.com> wrote: I might be skating on thin ice here, but here goes, as a developer, and the way I write programs to the level of user friendliness required where I work, in my view what is happening is badly written code, to use terminology that is common where I work, it should not be producing the extra guf that is incidental to what it has been asked to do, which is delete dangling symlinks. I don't think you're on thin ice, but software works the way it works. The symlinks package itself looks pretty moribund.The archive it appears to be packaged from states https://www.ibiblio.org/software/linux/I guess, as a developer, if you wanted to improve it, you could move the archive sources to an active repo, start improving it with what you want and petition to see if it could be actively updated again? (I have zero idea of the politics behind this, but it's open source software.)I could do that. I did actually try doing that with openoffice to expand the functionality of its excel equivalent once but found that their required testing regime was horrendous so I just gave up.I think the difference here is that symlinks is /effectively/ unmaintained, so there wouldn't be a ton of resistance if you just forked it, made the changes you wanted and then suggested these be rolled back into a distro.The only other way that package is likely to get attention is if someone discovers an RCE in it, in which case the community/a vendor with a vested interest would fix 'upstream' (even though there isn't really an active upstream as far as I can tell) and then backport fixes if needed.That said, I've never maintained anything other than internal org SPEC files and I suspect the investment in maintenance is probably significant. Replace it (or wrap it) with a local Python script, might be easier?
It might be, but I am trying to learn python at the moment because at work we are moving to an environment where python is required, so at the moment I don't have the expertise to be able to do that.
regards, Steve
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