| Summary: | unnecessary "./" in slogin and slogin.1 symlinks | ||||||
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| Product: | Portable OpenSSH | Reporter: | Colin Watson <cjwatson> | ||||
| Component: | Build system | Assignee: | Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | ||||||
| Severity: | trivial | CC: | djm, tim | ||||
| Priority: | P2 | ||||||
| Version: | 5.3p1 | ||||||
| Hardware: | Other | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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(In reply to comment #0) > Created an attachment (id=1802) [details] > simplify slogin and slogin.1 symlinks [....] > "./". There's certainly no benefit in these, so would you apply the > attached patch to simplify the links and shut it up? Actually there is a benifit. Without the "./" in the symlink, the packiging tools on a number of SVR4 based platforms will get it wrong. Seriously? Wow, incompatible packaging systems. I suppose I can keep the patch locally. I was just trying to reduce my unforwarded-patch count. Looks like we get to keep this wart :( Mass move of bugs RESOLVED->CLOSED following the release of openssh-5.5p1 |
Created attachment 1802 [details] simplify slogin and slogin.1 symlinks I'm almost afraid to file this because it's so trivial :-) Debian packages are often run through an automated lint-type program called lintian, which checks for a wide variety of problems from the severe to the trivial. We usually try to keep its output short in order to make it easier to see severe problems. At the trivial end of the scale, it complains about symlinks with unnecessary segments like "./". There's certainly no benefit in these, so would you apply the attached patch to simplify the links and shut it up? Thanks!