Re: [arch-dev-public] general packaging question about symlinks

Dan McGee wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Aaron Griffin schrieb:

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However, the debian policy linked in the same post does not seem to have changed : "In general, symbolic links within a top-level directory should be relative, and symbolic links pointing from one top-level directory into another should be absolute. (A top-level directory is a sub-directory of the root directory /.) "

Think we should vote on this one? Do we care enough? I like the sound of the debian policy

I don't. It is inconsistent and there is no reason for absolute symlinks I could think of. That said, it's not really a topic that makes the world end if we do it wrong.

Relative symlinks seem downright dumb to me when you are passing through '/', but in the end, I don't care enough to write another email on this subject, so you've heard my vote. :)

Agreed. Meh++ Allan