Bug#530378: debian-policy: allow /usr/share/doc/<package> to point to another indirectly-depended-upon package's dir
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:10:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I guess I'm not understanding why you don't just make bogofilter depend
> > on bogofilter-common as well. What's the drawback?
>
> None really, but it would seem as if we're making a technical
> decision for a bureaucratic reason, which doesn't seem right.
The technical reason to do it this way is that it makes it much easier
to test in lintian or similar; you just need to examine the target of
the symlink and see if the package depends on the package named in the
symlink target. [I'm not really sure where the bureaucracy is here.]
Don Armstrong
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does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
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