Bug#812723: lintian: package-contains-broken-symlink should look at dependencies
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 12:43 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Dear Adam,
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:39:52AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > The tag description explicitly indicates that this is expected in the
> > situation you describe.
>
> I know. I was under the impression, though, that all false positives
> are considered Lintian bugs.
It's a situation that Lintian can't reasonably address, as it doesn't
know what files are in the package that you depend on.
The tag's intentionally marked as Experimental; I'm not sure whether the
current recommendation for such tags is to override or simply ignore
them.
Regards,
Adam
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