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Re: Lintian warnings questions



On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:

> > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream
> > knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package
> > still be accepted even with these errors?
> 
> Can, but probably shouldn't.  Move the images to where they're supposed to
> be (/usr/share) and modify the rest of the package to look for them there. 
> If that's not practical, then symlink.
As long as upstram is ultimately planning on fixing this, I would
leave the images where they are *unless* they exist in a directory by
themselves (or with other data that should be shared).  I'm just more
comfortable with that; otherwise a bad symlink could potentially cause
a crash (if the symlink is a whole directory though, you're almost
guaranteed to notice it before a user does).

IANADD,
Justin

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