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Re: /svn/athena r23365 - trunk/debathena/config/base/debian

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Tue Jan 27 01:06:54 2009

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:06:05 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: tabbott@mit.edu
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0500, tabbott@MIT.EDU wrote:
> +# Hack to prevent dh_link from "canonicalizing" the /usr/athena and
> +# /bin/athena symlinks to e.g. athena -> ../usr.  This seems to not be
> +# needed on recent distributions, but is still a problem on at least
> +# dapper.
>  DEB_DH_LINK_debathena-base = --your-mother || true

You eventually found this in the BTS and in a specific new debhelper
version, no?  The version could help us later verify quickly that the
hack is no longer needed.

Greg

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