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Bug#672297: lintian: False positive package-contains-broken-symlink for files created during postinst



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
My package cacti replaces an upstream file with a symlink to
/etc/cacti/debian.php. This later file is created upon configuration by
dbconfig-common. I therefor think this package-contains-broken-symlink
is a false positive in that case.

Furthermore, in postinst it (tries to) create /usr/local/share/ files.
Links in the normal /usr/share/cacti try point to it to provide a place
where local administrator can put there files. Again, I believe this is
a false positive.

Paul

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-24-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                       2.22-6
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-1
ii  diffstat                       1.55-2
ii  file                           5.11-1
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-7
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.26+b1
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-32
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.3
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                         2.6.1-2
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-10
ii  unzip                          6.0-6

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    <none>
ii  libtext-template-perl  <none>
ii  man-db                 2.6.1-2
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

-- no debconf information



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