Bug#249414: lintian: Fails to detect usr-doc-symlink
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:40:08PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:55:21PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de> [2004-05-31 14:32]:
> >
> > > No problem. /usr/share/doc/$pkg/copyright is the reason. As the
> > > copyright notice is one of the most important files in a package (at
> > > least seen from a legal pov) we have to ensure that it is always
> > > right. This is only possible if both packages come from the same source
> > > package and the same source version. We still have a little problem in
> > > those cases where the version of a binary package differs from the
> > > version of another binary package linking its /usr/share/doc/dir to it.
> >
> > The goal of detecting incoherences in the copyright files is very noble, but
>
> Hm, we trust to the maintainers to get this kind of dependencies right
> in most cases... That is, a depends on the latest significantly (that
> is, incompatible) changed version, and conflict on the latest
> incompatible package.
>
> copyright files don't change that often, is it really needed to demand a
> strict depends?
Based also on the referred d-d thread, I'm tending to revert the extra
check introduced at the request of #201470
Once lintian supports proper cross-package checking, this test can be
made perfect, by simply checking whether the copyright file is indeed
identical.
--Jeroen
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