Is there a policy ruling n this?
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Debian bug report logs - #33669
wrong error message
Package: lintian; Reported by: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
dated Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:18:00 GMT; Maintainer for lintian is Richard
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Richard Braakman writes:
> > E: gstep-base-dbg: usr-doc-symlink-without-dependency gstep-base
> >
> > gstep-base-dbg depends on gstep-base-dev, which depends on gstep-base,
> > so linitian misses this indirect dependency on gstep-base.
>
> I don't think policy allows this kind of indirect dependency, actually:
>
> /usr/doc/<package-name> may be a symbolic link to a directory in
> /usr/doc only if two packages both come from the same source and the
> first package has a "Depends" relationship on the second. These rules
> are important because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical
> means.
The wording seems to forbid this, but the indirect links don't violate
the rationale (still extractable by mechanical means).
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> E: gstep-base-dbg: usr-doc-symlink-without-dependency gstep-base
>
> gstep-base-dbg depends on gstep-base-dev, which depends on gstep-base,
> so linitian misses this indirect dependency on gstep-base.
I don't think policy allows this kind of indirect dependency, actually:
/usr/doc/<package-name> may be a symbolic link to a directory in
/usr/doc only if two packages both come from the same source and the
first package has a "Depends" relationship on the second. These rules
are important because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical
means.
Richard Braakman
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> E: gstep-base-dbg: usr-doc-symlink-without-dependency gstep-base
>
> gstep-base-dbg depends on gstep-base-dev, which depends on gstep-base,
> so linitian misses this indirect dependency on gstep-base.
I don't think policy allows this kind of indirect dependency, actually:
/usr/doc/<package-name> may be a symbolic link to a directory in
/usr/doc only if two packages both come from the same source and the
first package has a "Depends" relationship on the second. These rules
are important because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical
means.
Richard Braakman
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.0
E: gstep-base-dbg: usr-doc-symlink-without-dependency gstep-base
gstep-base-dbg depends on gstep-base-dev, which depends on gstep-base,
so linitian misses this indirect dependency on gstep-base.
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