Re: hard linking libboost copyright files

On 2024-02-04 Muhammad Yaaseen <[email protected]> wrote:
> The question is once we install the libboost .deb packages into a
> system, the copyright file for each libboost package is stored
> separately in /usr/shared/doc/packages folder. I'm think of
> hardlinking these copyright files so that we same some memory. Is this
> legally allowed. 
[...]

The canonical solution would be to add libboost-commonx.xx containing
what is currently found in /usr/share/doc/libboost-foox.xx and symlink
the whole directory. You'll probably need to make libboost-commonx.xx
arch all to be binNMU compatible.

cu Andreas