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Bug#527843: "symlink-has-double-slash" should be pedantic, or?



package: lintian

Hi,

I stumbled over http://lintian.debian.org/tags/symlink-has-double-slash.html 
and wonder why it's severity: important and not pendantic. Can you explain? 
It doesnt seem to break anything but is only aesthetic, so :)

This symlink contains two successive slashes (//). This is in violation of 
policy, where it is stated that symlinks should be as short as possible 
If you use debhelper, running dh_link after creating the package structure 
will fix this problem for you. 
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.5 (Symbolic links) for details. 
Severity: important, Certainty: certain

Policy 10.5 only mentions that links with foo/../bar are deprecated.


regards,
	Holger

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