Charliej wrote:
With that said this is a quote from my upstream:
"Whee, is this something you could take care of at install, delete and
then create a symlink. Or would this still violate this policy"
Would this be a viable solution? (I told upstream I would ask)
I don't think this is a viable solution because the lintian error would
still remain.
You should symlink the file provided by the other package, if lintian still
complains it is a bug in lintian then.
I think one of the reasons he is hesitant is that the removal of
"prototype" from the .tar.gz that he hosts would severely impact his M$
Windows users (he has a rather large M$ Windows community). Actually I
could care less about M$ Windows users, but he does.
As I see it to comply with Policy 4.13 "prototype" will have to be
removed from upstreams .tar.gz.. Am I correct in this assumption?
No, he doesn't need to remove his copy of prototype, it is _you_ who needs
to prevent it from being installed in the package you build.