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

[Russ Allbery]

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:09:37AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

>> The second category is named "error" and the tags listed can not be
>> overridden. Those are tags corresponding to packaging errors serious
>> enough to mark a package unfit for the archive and should never happen.
>> In fact, most of the tags listed do not appear in our archive
>> currently, the few packages listed below should be easily fixable with
>> their next upload.

> I see three ways out:
> - change the symlinks
> - get a special case in lintian
> - get FTP-master to change the category of this particular tag

> Russ (explicitly Cc'd, not sure if you'd get this anyway),

I would have eventually, but probably not until I get back from vacation,
since I'm way behind on debian-perl and haven't been reading it during
vacation.

> what do you think of the second option?

Lintian can do that, sure.  Perl is the only package I'm aware of that has
this particular configuration, and the reasons are directly related to the
fact that it's essential, so it's not much of a slippery slope.  It would
be nice to get ftpmaster confirmation that they're okay with that (and
have them look over the discussion and history of this bug).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>