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Bug#524780: marked as done (lintian: false positive usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency for multiple-step depends)

Your message dated Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:04:55 -0700
with message-id <87ab62sn48.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Re: Bug#524780: lintian: false positive usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency for multiple-step depends
has caused the Debian Bug report #524780,
regarding lintian: false positive usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency for multiple-step depends
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.9
Severity: normal

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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.8-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.19.1-1          The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.46-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.14.25           Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.00-1            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-6            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libdigest-sha-perl     5.47-1            Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.82-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.1600-9          Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl            1.37+dfsg-1       Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                 2.5.5-1           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch            2.19.1-1   Binary utilities that support mult
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.5-1    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

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Closing per previous message.  Policy doesn't require copyright
extractors follow transitive dependencies.

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

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

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