tag 522827 wontfix
close 522827
thanks

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Brendan O'Dea" <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Niko Tyni <[email protected]> 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



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