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

[Niko Tyni]

unarchive 522827
reopen 522827
thanks

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:09:37AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately I have to reopen this issue because the lintian error
is going to cause automatic REJECTs soon according to 

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00004.html 

The 'no-copyright-file' tag is on the 'error' list; quoting Joerg Jaspert:

> 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), what do you think
of the second option?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org