[vox-tech] debian reportbug question

[Ken Bloom]

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> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:58:56 -0800
> To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
> From: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
> Subject: [vox-tech] debian reportbug question
> Reply-To: vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
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> i started to take a look at the source code for electric fence to see
> how it works when i noticed that the unpacked source (apt-get source
> electric-fence) contains a broken symlink:
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> p@satan% ll libefence.so=20
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 p        p              33 2003-01-22 00:42 libefence.so
> -> debian/tmp/usr/lib/libefence.so.0
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> should something like this be reported?  or is it too benign?  the
> binary package doesn't install the broken symlink; it's just in the
> source package.
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> pete
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You could file a bug report against it, but chances are it's some kind=20
of kludge that makes the build (or the install) work. But they should=20
tell you that, not me.

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