This patch is still waiting for one more second. It was previously seconded by Helmut.
Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Here is a patch dropping the restriction on hard links in source > packages that I think is ready for seconds. I'm copying Guillem for his > review, in case there's some dpkg concern. > From 12b014c4b930577a728dfb1254b64aac6a5eb1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:15:52 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] Allow hard links in source packages > It's not clear why this restriction was in place, and Debian > included a package containing hard links without anyone noticing > in the last release. > --- > policy/ch-source.rst | 11 ++--------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > index c7415fc..a7df539 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > @@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ source files in a package, as far as is reasonably > possible. [#]_ > Restrictions on objects in source packages > ------------------------------------------ > > -The source package must not contain any hard links, [#]_ device special > -files, sockets or setuid or setgid files.. [#]_ > +The source package must not contain device special files, sockets, or > +setuid or setgid files. [#]_ > > .. _s-debianrules: > > @@ -918,13 +918,6 @@ must not exist a file ``debian/patches/foo.series`` for > any ``foo``. > would be nice if the modification time of the upstream source would > be preserved. > > -.. [#] > - This is not currently detected when building source packages, but > - only when extracting them. > - > - Hard links may be permitted at some point in the future, but would > - require a fair amount of work. > - > .. [#] > Setgid directories are allowed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
