Package: libhogweed2 Version: 2.7.1-3+b1 Severity: serious Justification: policy 12.3 footnote 2 Tags: patch
libhogweed2 contains a symlink /usr/share/doc/libhogweed2 -> libnettle4. Its dependency on libnettle4 is unversioned though which means, that the copyright and changelog files can get out of sync. This violates the Debian policy section 12.3 footnote 2. The solution is to add "libnettle4 (= ${binary:Version})" to libhogweed2's Depends in debian/control. Note that debhelper cannot be blamed on this, because nettle does not use dh_installdocs --link-doc, but rather instantiates this symlink on its own. It therefore is nettle's responsibility to add the versioned dependency. The same issue holds for nettle-bin. Attaching a .debdiff for your convenience. Helmut
diff -Nru nettle-2.7.1/debian/changelog nettle-2.7.1/debian/changelog --- nettle-2.7.1/debian/changelog 2014-07-29 17:20:42.000000000 +0200 +++ nettle-2.7.1/debian/changelog 2014-12-13 11:00:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +nettle (2.7.1-3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add versioned depends on libnettle4 for packages sharing their + /usr/share/doc to comply with Debian policy 12.3. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:59:28 +0100 + nettle (2.7.1-3) unstable; urgency=low * Use -fPIC instead of -fpic by default (Closes: #755769); needed on diff -Nru nettle-2.7.1/debian/control nettle-2.7.1/debian/control --- nettle-2.7.1/debian/control 2014-04-18 21:06:14.000000000 +0200 +++ nettle-2.7.1/debian/control 2014-12-13 11:01:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Architecture: any Multi-Arch: same Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libnettle4 (= ${binary:Version}) Description: low level cryptographic library (public-key cryptos) Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Package: nettle-bin Section: misc Architecture: any -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libnettle4 (= ${binary:Version}) Breaks: lsh-utils (<< 2.0.4-dfsg-1) Replaces: lsh-utils (<< 2.0.4-dfsg-1) Suggests: lsh-doc