Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Please add an info lintian tag warning about embedded data copies, examples include the PCI id database, the USB id database, the OUI/IAB listings, the Unicode data. I've included details below for the examples below. There are a small number of packages in the archive embedding this data directly already and more that embed it in a different form. For now please just add filename based matching. Please note that symlinks should be ignored by lintian. Tag: embedded-data Info: The given file is an embedded copy of data maintained elsewhere. As such it is likely to get out of date. It should be removed from this package, replaced with a symlink to the same file in the canonical package and a dependency on that package added to this package. Ref: policy 4.13 (talks about code not data but the same applies) Package: pciutils Match: *pci.ids* Package: usbutils Match: *usb.ids* Package: ieee-data Match: *oui.txt* *iab.txt* Package: aglfn Match: *aglfn*.txt* Package: unicode-data Match: *UnicodeData*.txt* *NamedSequences.txt* uni*/Blocks.txt* allkeys.txt EastAsianWidth.txt SpecialCasing.txt NormalizationTest.txt GraphemeBreakTest.txt -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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