Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Please add an info lintian tag warning about embedded data copies,
examples include the PCI id database, the USB id database, the OUI/IAB
listings, the Unicode data. I've included details below for the examples
below. There are a small number of packages in the archive embedding
this data directly already and more that embed it in a different form.
For now please just add filename based matching. Please note that
symlinks should be ignored by lintian.

Tag: embedded-data
Info: The given file is an embedded copy of data maintained elsewhere.
As such it is likely to get out of date. It should be removed from this
package, replaced with a symlink to the same file in the canonical
package and a dependency on that package added to this package.
Ref: policy 4.13 (talks about code not data but the same applies)

Package: pciutils
Match: *pci.ids*

Package: usbutils
Match: *usb.ids*

Package: ieee-data
Match: *oui.txt* *iab.txt*

Package: aglfn
Match: *aglfn*.txt*

Package: unicode-data
Match: *UnicodeData*.txt* *NamedSequences.txt* uni*/Blocks.txt* allkeys.txt EastAsianWidth.txt SpecialCasing.txt NormalizationTest.txt GraphemeBreakTest.txt

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