unarchive 522827 reopen 522827 thanks On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:09:37AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > tag 522827 wontfix > close 522827 > thanks > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > "Brendan O'Dea" <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Niko Tyni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> As revealed by lintian, shipping /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright > > >> in perl-base and symlinking /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl > > >> is a policy violation. [...] > > > > This was an intentional decision and I do not believe that there is > > > actually a problem here. > > > I'd recommend against anyone doing the same thing in a new package, but > > given that it already is like this, I never managed to convince myself > > that the effort to change it was really worth it. > > Agreed. I'll add a lintian override with a comment pointing to this bug.
Unfortunately I have to reopen this issue because the lintian error is going to cause automatic REJECTs soon according to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00004.html The 'no-copyright-file' tag is on the 'error' list; quoting Joerg Jaspert: > The second category is named "error" and the tags listed can not be > overridden. Those are tags corresponding to packaging errors serious > enough to mark a package unfit for the archive and should never happen. > In fact, most of the tags listed do not appear in our archive > currently, the few packages listed below should be easily fixable with > their next upload. I see three ways out: - change the symlinks - get a special case in lintian - get FTP-master to change the category of this particular tag Russ (explicitly Cc'd, not sure if you'd get this anyway), what do you think of the second option? -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
