From 8864aef1c3a1a66c9bd6da01b96417441dbe849a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 15:37:12 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. Closes: #676784 --- debian/changelog | 1 + policy.sgml | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index fe4a858..bc23f5c 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn. * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones. Closes: #705403 + * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784) -- Russ Allbery Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700 diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 953d5d2..cb1093f 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8853,7 +8853,9 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq

- A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file should always + A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file (in the sense + that it is meant to be uncompressed with unzip + or zless etc.) should always have the same file extension as the referenced file. (For example, if a file foo.gz is referenced by a symbolic link, the filename of the link has to end with -- 2.39.2