Lintian tag: symlink-target-in-tmp
Type: error
Description (from lintian-explain-tags
)
Packages must not set links with targets pointing into /tmp or /var/tmp.
The File Hierarchy Standard specifies that such files may be removed by
the administrator and that programs may not depend on any files in /tmp
being preserved across invocations, which combined mean that it makes no
sense to ship files in these directories.
Please refer to /tmp : Temporary files (Section 3.18) in the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard and /var/tmp : Temporary files preserved between system
reboots (Section 5.15) in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for details.
Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: files/symbolic-links
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