Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Examples should go in /usr/doc/<package>examples/ . Lintian will not
> > complain about executables in that directory.
>
> Is that /usr/doc/<package>/examples/ or really
> /usr/doc/<package>examples/ ?
The latter.
> I had a link from examples to the directory where example
> directories actually are:
>
> /usr/doc/mh-book/examples -> html/download/split
>
> Perhaps I can switch things around, move the files to examples
> and symlink the old directory over.
>
> But does this matter? Can I ignore lintian about this?
It's not a big deal, you can ask for an override. Reversing the symlink and
directory would probably do it.
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