Bug#661003: package-contains-broken-symlink description

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Hi!

The description of the package-contains-broken-symlink tag makes it sound like 
lintian has actually checked the packages dependencies:

I: package-contains-broken-symlink
N:
N:   The package contains a symlink but the destination for the link does
N:   not exist in the package nor in its direct dependencies.
N:   
N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: wild-guess
N:   
N:   Check: symlinks, Type: binary, udeb

But it has not -- it has only checked the dependencies that are in the same 
group/changes file. Packages with a symlink to a file or directory provided by a 
package they depend upon but where that package is built from a different 
source will raise this tag.

Can I suggest improved wording for this tag?

I: package-contains-broken-symlink
N:
N:   The package contains a symlink but the destination for the link does
N:   not exist in the package or in its direct dependencies that were checked
N:   at the same time.
N:   
N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: wild-guess
N:   
N:   Check: symlinks, Type: binary, udeb

(running "lintian foo.deb bar.deb" still isn't enough so the 'same time' 
wording isn't perfect, but it's a start and at least won't have people 
wondering why lintian is claiming to have checked dependencies when it has 
not.)

cheers
Stuart

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