Bug#812723: lintian: package-contains-broken-symlink should look at dependencies
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 21:19 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> package-contains-broken-symlink gives a false positive when a package
> contains a symlink to a file provided by another package, even when the
> package with the warning depends on the package providing the target of
> the symlink.
>
> For an example, see the source package ublock-origin version
> 1.5.6+dfsg-1 in the Debian archive.
The tag description explicitly indicates that this is expected in the
situation you describe:
"The package contains a symlink but the destination for the link does
not exist in the package nor in its direct dependencies built from the
same source package."
xul-ext-ublock-origin and fonts-fonts-awesome are /not/ built from the
same source package.
Regards,
Adam
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