Bug#276822: lintian: please make usr-doc-symlink-without-dependency strict again

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.3
Severity: normal


Quoting a mail I wrote in #249414:



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.