On Fri, 01 May 2015, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Yes, positive. dh_linktree adds files to destination and this is very useful > behaviour that I rely upon. [...] > > If embed doesn't do what you want, we might consider a new action but I'm > > not convinced yet that it's needed. Possibly an "embed-weakdep" that > > behaves like embed but generates a weak dependency ? > > Yes, that new action would be useful. Thanks. [...] > > “The "deduplicate" action will not create new files” [...] > > “The "replace" action is like "deduplicate" except that it does replace > > existing files even if their content is different from the content of the > > source files.” > > > > So if you what you say is true, it's actually a bug since it doesn't > > behave like the documentation says it should. > > May be but then it would be a documentation bug... I think it would not be a > win if you change "replace" action to avoid adding new content...
Given your answer about "embed-weakdep", I think that it would make sense to fix "replace" to behave like the documentation says and to introduce the other variant of embed. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
