Package: libgssapi-krb5-2 Version: 1.15-1 Severity: serious Justification: violates policy section 8.2
libgssapi-krb5-2 is a shared library package and contains /etc/gss/mech.d/README. The latter filename does not depend on the soname of the library and thus does not change when the soname changes. Thus the package will not be coinstallable a newer soname of the same library and make system upgrades unnecessarily difficult. This violates the first sentence from policy section 8.2, which is a must: | If your package contains files whose names do not change with each | change in the library shared object version, you must not put them in | the shared library package. This actually causes problems today, due to a related bug in dpkg, which does not properly support conffiles in m-a:same packages (#861217). Please split the README to a different package (or remove it). Often times a -common package is used for such files, e.g. libldap-common. Helmut
