On 4/12/21 1:15 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 14:13, home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
[... snip ...]
(question 2)
In a later post, Andras provided and example of a dangling symlink (in
the "hunspell" package) that should not be deleted. When I was a C/C++
programmer (a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away), dangling
pointers (and memory leaks) were naughty; they can cause serious
problems. Isn't a dangling symlink a file system parallel to a
dangling
pointer in a C/C++ program? What good, valid purpose is there for a
package to have a dangling symlink? Or maybe "hunspell" needs a little
clean-up?
The appropriate person to deal with dangling symlinks in a package is the
maintainer. It doesn't make sense to include them in post-upgrade cleanup
as that is just hiding buglets. [... snip ...]
I agree.
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