On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:54:58AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > 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.
Oh. Well. It's the second time in a few month that I rewrite a test which already exists in lintian. This thing really rules. > > 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 should be done to help theses checks to get online again ? May I help ? > > 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. Well, if it's in lintian, ok. It will be easy to find them again and again. But what about a dh_fhs part (or what ever) of debhelper which would add these lines to the good scripts, and move /usr/doc files to there correct location. I mean, would it be usefull, or is it overkill ? Bye, Mt.
