Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 18:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: There is exactly one header file, and IMO packages should care enough about their dependencies to not do silly things to get a single file included. It smells like a transitional measure, but I don't know for sure. I see that it was

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-10 Thread John Belmonte
Daniel Silverstone wrote: Some are aware and do: #include lua.h and have -I/usr/include/lua50 If software using Lua's C API wants to be portable, it should use the lua.h form and get the include path from pkg-config. That should be the end of it. Should someone want to use such software on

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: liblua50-dev Version: 5.0.2-6 Severity: normal $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- '-' lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/lib/liblua50.so - liblua50.so.5.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: liblua50-dev Version: 5.0.2-6 Severity: normal $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- '-' lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09 10:03:01 ./usr/lib/liblua50.so - liblua50.so.5.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: liblua50-dev Version: 5.0.2-6 Severity: normal $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- '-' lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2006-04-09

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: liblua50-dev Version: 5.0.2-6 Severity: normal $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/liblua50-dev_5.0.2-6_i386.deb |grep -- '-' lrwxrwxrwx

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:54:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:30:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: liblua50-dev Version: 5.0.2-6 Severity: normal $ dpkg -c

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:54:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Does grep -r follow symlinks? That sounds kind of dangerous. It does, I just checked. I'm not sure why it's dangerous, xargs in /tmp/ is dumb, and anywhere else you control and should be

Bug#361740: liblua50-dev: symlink pointing to .

2006-04-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:23:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 05:54:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Does grep -r follow symlinks? That sounds kind of dangerous. It does, I just checked. I'm not sure why it's dangerous,