Matthias Klose <[email protected]> writes: > python-examples > E usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency > python
> $ dpkg -I ../python-examples_2.7.14-3_all.deb |grep Depends > Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.14-3), python2.7-examples (>= 2.7.14-1~) lothlorien:~$ lintian-info -t usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency E: usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency N: N: If the package installs a symbolic link /usr/share/doc/<pkg1> -> N: <pkg2>, then <pkg1> must depend on <pkg2> directory, with the same N: version as <pkg1>. A >= relation doesn't cut it. It has to be =. This is fallout from the requirement that packages include a changelog for that specific version of the package. It's in Policy, but it's semi-hidden in a footnote (and it looks like the current www.debian.org publication of Policy has broken all the footnote links because the multi-page Policy document isn't published anywhere...). -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
