[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#626263: Clarification of §10.5 symlink wording needed

[Russ Allbery]

Carsten Hey <carsten at debian.org> writes:

> Besides "/usr -> /", are symlinks to directories still supported as
> top-level directories and are there still people using such a setup?
> If nobody uses this anymore, the policy could be adapted to the year
> 2011.

Is there any reason *not* to continue supporting them?  They can
definitely save you as a short term measure to work around a bad
partitioning scheme until one can fix it by reformatting.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>