Bug#524780: lintian: false positive usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency for multiple-step depends

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> writes:

> gcompris-dbg gets reported a usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency
> against gcompris-data (which contains the docdir), although -dbg does
> depend on gcompris, which in turn does depend on -data.  And it is
> pointless to add an additional dep just for this, since if gcompris ever
> got its docdir symlink b0rked, lintian would probably already notice it
> anyway.

Please add the explicit dependency per Policy:

    /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in
    /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source
    and the first package Depends on the second. These rules are important
    because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means.

We do not require that automated copyright extracters support a full
dependency resolution engine, only a simple one-level Depends check.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>