Bug#809440: lintian: runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file complains about a symlink to a regular test file

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>, 2016-02-14, 17:30:
> > > Relative symbolic links to autopkgtest tests should be allowed as 
> > > long as they point to regular files. This adds the following tags for 
> > > identifying problematic types of symlinks:
> > >
> > > - runtime-test-file-is-absolute-symlink
> > > - runtime-test-file-is-self-recursive-symlink
> > > - runtime-test-file-is-broken-symlink
> > > - runtime-test-file-is-symlink-to-non-regular-file
> >
> > I don't think we need separate tags for every kind of brokenness. One 
> > tag should be enough.
>
> Ok, I can provide a patch that just emits 
> runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file if is_open_ok fails and updates 
> the description of that tag that symbolic links are also allowed, as 
> long as they point to a regular file, if that is OK with you?

Sounds good to me! :)

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Jakub Wilk