Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The .deb file does not carry the copyright files, which is a bit > problematic since users can download the .deb from the net and unpack > it with 'ar x'. Displaying the copyright file of a .deb is made a > much harder task. This affect packages.debian.org.
Point taken. > 2) This force a same version dependency which is quite rigid and might > cause problems (e.g. circular dependencies). This wouldn't be a problem for the development package of a library. > > 3) Reverting to a directory require maintainer scripts support because > dpkg will not replace a symlink by a directory. That's not a very strong argument IMO. Anyway, I see that my idea isn't a good one, and I'll drop that proposal. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
