Bug#22935: PROPOSED] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> > Fair enough.  So I second Ian's proposal that policy should say, while
> > talking about conffiles:
>  
> > "A package may not make hard links to conffiles.
> No problem with this.
> 
> >  (This is because it will cause technical problems perhaps leading to
> >   incorrect behaviour.)"
> 
> This however explains almost nothing when taken out of context with
> the above text and will invite later "What technical problems?"
> questions (like earlier in this thread ;-)
> 
> Either omit it entirely, or better, briefly describe how hard links
> will not automatically point to new config files installed by the package
> manager, but remain linked to the inodes of the old config files, even
> if their 'other' filename is deleted..
> 
> (I'm sure someone can describe this for policy better than I just did ;-)

OK, how about:

  (This is because the hardlinks will end up pointing to the old
  config files after an upgrade, which is probably not the intended
  behaviour.)

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg