Bug#530378: debian-policy: allow /usr/share/doc/<package> to point to another indirectly-depended-upon package's dir
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> Policy allows a package's doc directory to be a symlink to another package's
> doc directory, as long as they are:
>
> - from the same source package and
> - the first package directly depends upon the second
>
> I propose that that the second requirement is relaxed to allow for an indirect
> dependency of the first package to the second (as long as all packages
> involved have the same source).
I don't see the benefit of this. If you're going to have a symlink to
the doc directory of another package, you should have a dependency on
the package that provides the doc directory. [It makes it much easier
to test in lintian, and it makes it much less likely to result in
errors down the line where the package the dependency path goes
through drops the dependency.]
Don Armstrong
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