Bug#897157: lintian: Allow /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples to be a symlink
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Hi,
> That should be fine already. Indeed, I just added such a test for
>
> symlinks and it passes without any code changes:
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/1b148029d55c3091bd99993751
> cc5f9a674ae901>
The test case is making the following link:
/usr/share/doc/$(PKG)-common/examples /usr/share/doc/$(PKG)/examples
The test package would never have triggered this lintian package before the
symlink was added because there's already a directory /u/s/d/*/examples/.
However, the request is to be able to have a link outside /usr/share/doc:
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2018-04-29 17:06
> ./usr/share/doc/octave-zeromq/examples ->
> ../../octave/packages/zeromq-1.3.0/examples
The difference between these two situations is cause of the confusion here.
I don't think it's unreasonable to have symlinks outside /u/s/doc (and was
trying to do so today to help users find the examples that pymol-data is
shipping inside /usr/share/pymol/examples).
cheers
Stuart
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