Hi Martin!

You wrote:

> Here is a small stupid script to find packages owning a directory in
> /usr/share/doc without its counterpart in /usr/doc :

Lintian already checks for this.

> It is impossible to do the same job by grepping the Contents-* files
> because the policy says "The symlink must be created when the package is
> installed; it cannot be contained in the package itself due to problems
> with dpkg."

When the daily lintian checks get online again (Josip?), those package
swill be detected automatically.

> What do you think about this all, guys ? Should I report critical bugs
> against the above packages (the policy says "must") ? 

I think bugs about this issue have already been reported.

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