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Bug#809440: lintian: runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file complains about a symlink to a regular test file



Hi Jakub,

On 02/14/2016 05:24 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>, 2016-02-14, 04:29:
>> Relative symbolic links to autopkgtest tests should be allowed as
>> long as they point to regular files. This adds the following tags
>> for identifying problematic types of symlinks:
>>
>> - runtime-test-file-is-absolute-symlink
>> - runtime-test-file-is-self-recursive-symlink
>> - runtime-test-file-is-broken-symlink
>> - runtime-test-file-is-symlink-to-non-regular-file
> 
> I don't think we need separate tags for every kind of brokenness.
> One tag should be enough.

Ok, I can provide a patch that just emits
runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file
if is_open_ok fails and updates the description of that tag that
symbolic links are also allowed, as long as they point to a
regular file, if that is OK with you?

Regards,
Christian

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