Re: Bug#249414: lintian: Fails to detect usr-doc-symlink
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:52:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:24:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The first paragraph of section 12.7. of your policy is:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
> > the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in
> > `/usr/share/doc/<package>' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'.
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > I'd read this section of your policy that
> > /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz must always point to
> > "a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source
> > tree" <package> was built from.
> >
> > Since this is a "must", a violation through a dependency that is not on
> > exactly the same version of the package containing the actual file seems
> > to be a RC bug.
>
> It's not in http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt, and therefore
> not release-critical.
According to section 1.1. of your policy, a violation of a "must" in
your policy is a "serious" bug.
AFAIK the word of your RM is not worth more than the text written in
your policy (or one word of your RM would be worth more than the whole
policy process; in this case your RM should become the official
maintainer of your policy).
Clearly your RM can say that some RC bugs are ignored for the next
release because fixing them would not be easily possible and they would
be tagged "sarge-ignore" (which would be silly for easy bugs as the ones
this discussion is about).
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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