[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Stripping binaries; relative or absolute pidof symlink

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 1. Lintian informs us that (#343863) "binary-has-unneeded-section .comment".
> 
> 2. Lintian also says that (#343862) "symlink-should-be-absolute bin/pidof ../sbin/killall5".
> 
> Miquel: Any reason not (1) to strip the binaries and (2) make the symlink absolute?

(1) well, whatever. I'm not even sure what that error means :)

(2) I always try to use relative symlinks since, at least when the path
is short (../../../../../../ is ugly I agree), it makes more sense to me
so that's where it came from. If policy says "absolute paths" so be
it ..

Mike.