openssh bugs - Mar 2010 - [Bug 1728] New: unnecessary "./" in slogin and slogin.1 symlinks

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1728

           Summary: unnecessary "./" in slogin and slogin.1 symlinks
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.3p1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: Build system
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: cjwatson at debian.org


Created an attachment (id=1802)
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simplify slogin and slogin.1 symlinks

I'm almost afraid to file this because it's so trivial :-)

Debian packages are often run through an automated lint-type program
called lintian, which checks for a wide variety of problems from the
severe to the trivial.  We usually try to keep its output short in
order to make it easier to see severe problems.  At the trivial end of
the scale, it complains about symlinks with unnecessary segments like
"./".  There's certainly no benefit in these, so would you apply
the
attached patch to simplify the links and shut it up?

Thanks!

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Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net> 2010-03-02 04:45:05
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(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=1802)
 --> (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=1802)
[details]
> simplify slogin and slogin.1 symlinks
[....]
> "./".  There's certainly no benefit in these, so would you
apply the
> attached patch to simplify the links and shut it up?
Actually there is a benifit. Without the "./" in the symlink, the
packiging tools on a number of SVR4 based platforms will get it wrong.

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--- Comment #2 from Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> 2010-03-02
06:45:06 EST ---
Seriously?  Wow, incompatible packaging systems.

I suppose I can keep the patch locally.  I was just trying to reduce my
unforwarded-patch count.

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #3 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2010-03-26 11:05:35
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Looks like we get to keep this wart :(

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Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #4 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> 2010-04-16 15:50:28
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Mass move of bugs RESOLVED->CLOSED following the release of
openssh-5.5p1

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