On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > These Depends lines are required by Policy section 12.5. > > I suppose you mean: > > `/usr/share/doc/<package>' may be a symbolic link to another directory > in `/usr/share/doc' only if the two packages both come from the same > source and the first package Depends on the second. These rules are > important because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. > > In that case you just need to move /usr/share/doc/<package> to the > data package as /usr/share/doc/<package-data> and reverse the symlink.
AFAIK replacing a symlink with a directory or vice versa is a rather tricky process, and the only problem with circular depends is that their postints can be run in arbitrary orders. As the postinsts of these packages don't depend on each other, I'd rather not risk breaking the upgrade in order to fix what is essentially an aesthetic problem. Daniel
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