control: clone -1 -2 control: reassign -2 lintian control: retitle -2 lintian should warn if dh_sphinx doesnt link some files it should control thanks
On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 12:37:24PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Lintian checks if the file in the question is either a regular file or a
> hardlink; it
> will skip symlinks.
> In this case, your assertion that this is link is wrong. I unpacked
> developers-reference-de and see:
my point was that lintian says I should depend on sphinx while I already do
that.
indeed lintian correctly found a sphinx file which was included and not linked,
however
the tag emitted only tells me to use sphinx which I do...
So in this case lintian should emit some other tag which clearly says that it
has
detected i'm using dh_sphinx and ${sphinxdoc:Depends} while there still is a
file
included which should be linked but isnt.
> That means sphinxdoc is doing its job for developers-reference, but there is
> something problematic in rest of the binary packages.
it's doing its job, but it's buggy. See -1 :)
> I don't think there's anything for lintian to do here, hence re-assigning.
> Hope that's okay.
as discussed on irc, cloning and reassining to lintian as -2.
Thanks for your work on lintian!
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