On 2012-07-28 10:16, Paul Gevers wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.10 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > In my package I want to create a symlinks to manpages in a recommended > package (the binaries use update-alternatives to provide the proper > variant). I would nearly consider this recommended package a dependency > but doing so would cause a circular dependency and anyway policy [7.2] > says: > > [...]
I think the error would disappear if you were to put the symlink in the "recommended" package? I appreciate that this may not be as easy as I make it sound. (For reference, what packages are we talking about?) > > So I believe that symlinks to recommended packages should be fine, and > as such the package-contains-broken-symlink check should also consider > recommended packages next to "depends" packages. > Strictly speaking it would still allow the package to ship a broken symlink, even if the situation is rare... > Feel free to tell me I am wrong in this, but please provide arguments. > But I suppose the real question is whether "Recommends is strong enough" for this purpose... > Grtz > Paul > > [7.2] > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps > > [...] ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
