Bug#690910: lintian: Please emit an error on conffile symlinks

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

Conffile symlinks have never been supported (see my message at [0]) and
will create problems for dpkg (as seen in 421344 and 312846).

  [0] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690051#12>

While dpkg-deb and dpkg should error out on this in the future (or
get actual support for conffile symlinks), it would still be useful
for lintian to report those for now so that they can be spotted, and
possibly rejected by dak.

(BTW, I'm aware of 421345, which while related does not seem to be
requesting the same thing here.)

thanks,
guillem