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 ...]

I agree.

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