Bug#897157: lintian: Allow /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples to be a symlink

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2018-05-01 10:49, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> [2018-04-29 19:07]:
>
> > tags 897157 + moreinfo thanks
> >
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> > > There are legitimate cases where /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples is a 
> > > symlink instead of a directory.
> >
> > That should be fine already. Indeed, I just added such a test for 
> > symlinks and it passes without any code changes:
> >
> >  
> > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/1b148029d55c3091bd99993751cc5f9a674ae901
> >
> > (It also does not trigger on, for example src:zsh.)
>
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> Why is this bug report tagged "moreinfo"?

Because the above commit isn't a "fix" for anything - it's a testcase to 
prove that the existing code already does what you requested, with no 
changes.

The "moreinfo" tag will therefore be requesting more details about your 
failing case - most likely access to copies of the affected .deb files - 
in order to see why it appears not to be working for you.

Regards,

Adam