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
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