[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#913572: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?

[Ian Jackson]

G. Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?"):
> At 2018-11-13T17:02:49+0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I guess the maintainer will also think this is a bug.
> 
> No; he closed it, and cited Policy's lack of a prohibition of shipping
> broken symlinks in support of the present arrangement.

I was perplexed as to why you didn't give a reference to the bug.  But
I am being stupid.  The bug is this bug, #913572 !

Anyway, policy doesn't prohibit a program from randomly coredumping
either.

I hope that this discussion will persuade the maintainer to reconsider
their decision.  The maintainer says

   if it doesn't affect the functionality of the package

but of course this symlink does have a functional effect: it causes
an undesirable warning message from man.

Ximin, is there some reason why you can't move the symlink to the -doc
package along with the manpage it refers to ?

Thanks,
Ian.

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