Bug#249414: lintian: Fails to detect usr-doc-symlink

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:31:56PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> 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.

Besides the copyright file, there's a similar problem with the changelog 
file (which obviously implies the current check for exactly the same 
version is correct):

The first paragraph of section 12.7. of your policy is:

<--  snip  -->

     Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
     the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in
     `/usr/share/doc/<package>' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'.

<--  snip  -->

I'd read this section of your policy that
/usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz must always point to
"a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source
tree" <package> was built from.

Since this is a "must", a violation through a dependency that is not on 
exactly the same version of the package containing the actual file seems 
to be a RC bug.


> --Jeroen

cu
Adrian

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