Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In my package I want to create a symlinks to manpages in a recommended package (the binaries use update-alternatives to provide the proper variant). I would nearly consider this recommended package a dependency but doing so would cause a circular dependency and anyway policy [7.2] says: Recommends: This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in *all but unusual installations*. [Emphasize by me.] So I believe that symlinks to recommended packages should be fine, and as such the package-contains-broken-symlink check should also consider recommended packages next to "depends" packages. Feel free to tell me I am wrong in this, but please provide arguments. Grtz Paul [7.2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-7.1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-3 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9 ii hardening-includes 2.2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6 ii libc-bin 2.13-34 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.8 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.91-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-12 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.8 pn libhtml-parser-perl <none> pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> pn libtext-template-perl <none> ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1 -- no debconf information
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