[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.10-23-g14cb220

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 14cb220c1b720e73080b3a5f84632e194b651048
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 8 16:05:47 2009 -0700

    Adjust severity and description of symlink-related tags
    
    * checks/files.desc:
      + [RA] Downgrade symlink-has-double-slash and symlink-ends-with-slash
        to minor.  These are violations of a Policy should, but are unlikely
        to cause practical problems.  (Closes: #527843)
      + [RA] Explain in the symlink-contains-spurious-segments description
        that these segments can cause problems in the presence of symlinked
        directories.

diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc
index e914d34..a8d1fca 100644
--- a/checks/files.desc
+++ b/checks/files.desc
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ Info: The package installs a symbolic link pointing to a compressed file,
 Ref: policy 10.5
 
 Tag: symlink-has-double-slash
-Severity: important
+Severity: minor
 Certainty: certain
 Info: This symlink contains two successive slashes (//). This is in violation
  of policy, where it is stated that symlinks should be as short as possible
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Info: This symlink contains two successive slashes (//). This is in violation
 Ref: policy 10.5
 
 Tag: symlink-ends-with-slash
-Severity: important
+Severity: minor
 Certainty: certain
 Info: This symlink ends with a slash (/). This is in violation
  of policy, where it is stated that symlinks should be as short as possible
@@ -372,9 +372,10 @@ Info: The symbolic link is recursive to a higher directory of the symlink
 Tag: symlink-contains-spurious-segments
 Severity: important
 Certainty: certain
-Info: The symbolic link has needless segments like ".." and "." in the middle.
- These are unneeded, and make the link longer than it could be, which is in
- violation of policy.
+Info: The symbolic link has needless segments like ".." and "." in the
+ middle.  These are unneeded and make the link longer than it could be,
+ which is in violation of policy.  They can also cause problems in the
+ presence of symlinked directories.
  .
  If you use debhelper, running dh_link after creating the package structure
  will fix this problem for you.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 665ad8e..2834225 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ lintian (2.2.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       to python-central.  Thanks, Bernd Zeimetz.  (Closes: #525997)
     + [ADB] Refer to contrib and non-free as "archive areas" rather than
       distributions.
+  * checks/files.desc:
+    + [RA] Downgrade symlink-has-double-slash and symlink-ends-with-slash
+      to minor.  These are violations of a Policy should, but are unlikely
+      to cause practical problems.  (Closes: #527843)
+    + [RA] Explain in the symlink-contains-spurious-segments description
+      that these segments can cause problems in the presence of symlinked
+      directories.
 
   * debian/rules:
     + [ADB] Re-order the commands in the runtests target so that the

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