Bug#522827: perl: policy violation with the current /usr/share/doc symlinks

[Niko Tyni]

tag 522827 wontfix
close 522827
thanks

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Brendan O'Dea" <bod at c47.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >> As revealed by lintian, shipping /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright
> >> in perl-base and symlinking /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl
> >> is a policy violation. [...]

> > This was an intentional decision and I do not believe that there is
> > actually a problem here.

> I'd recommend against anyone doing the same thing in a new package, but
> given that it already is like this, I never managed to convince myself
> that the effort to change it was really worth it.

Agreed. I'll add a lintian override with a comment pointing to this bug.

Thanks,
-- 
Niko