Bug#683059: lintian: package-contains-broken-symlink should also check recommended packages
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
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