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Bug#699344: opinions about unblock: sendmail/8.14.4-3



On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 14:56:53 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Maybe unblock package sendmail
> 
> sendmail in squeeze and testing creates a big mess with symlinks in
> /usr/share/doc (and the same in /usr/share/bug, although less noticable)
> with the following problems:
> * non-strict dependencies on the only package with a copyright file, so
>   many packages may end up without a copyright file installed at all
> * installing files over the symlinks, silently overwriting other
>   packages (from src:sendmail)
> 
> In my changes Thomas and I concentrated on cleaning up this symlink mess
> by having /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE a real directory again everywhere (and
> clean up on package upgrades as good as possible) and putting the
> documentation in th eappropriate packages.
> 
I wonder if it's not better to leave things as they are, and leave it to
whoever adopts sendmail for jessie to clean it up...

Cheers,
Julien

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