[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #402141: kernel-package: Creates useless and harmfull symlink to build-time > location of source, > which was filed against the kernel-package package. > > It has been closed by Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by replying > to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#402141: kernel-package: Creates useless and harmfull symlink > to build-time location of source > To: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:33:54 -0600 > Organization: The Golden Gryphon > Mail-Copies-To: nobody > > Hi, > > This is by design. The files are available in the common case > of the user compiling and installing the images on the same machine; > and then building third party modules. In the case the image is > installed on another machine, the symlink is removed on installation, > so no harm done. > > manoj
-- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
