Bug#897157: lintian: Allow /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples to be a symlink

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 897157 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Rafael,

> There are legitimate cases where /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples is a 
> symlink instead of a directory.

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/1b148029d55c3091bd99993751cc5f9a674ae901

(It also does not trigger on, for example src:zsh.)


Best wishes,

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