On 4/12/21 1:15 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 14:13, home user <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:[... snip ...] (question 2) In a later post, Andras provided and example of a dangling symlink (in the "hunspell" package) that should not be deleted. When I was a C/C++ programmer (a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away), dangling pointers (and memory leaks) were naughty; they can cause serious problems. Isn't a dangling symlink a file system parallel to a dangling pointer in a C/C++ program? What good, valid purpose is there for a package to have a dangling symlink? Or maybe "hunspell" needs a little clean-up?The appropriate person to deal with dangling symlinks in a package is the maintainer. It doesn't make sense to include them in post-upgrade cleanup as that is just hiding buglets. [... snip ...]
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