Package: doc-debian
Version: 11.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

On Mon, 8 May 2023 07:46:09 +0200 Joost van =?utf-8?Q?Baal-Ili=C4=87?= 
<joostvb-deb...@mdcc.cx> wrote:
> [ Risks ] None.  The doc-debian package is a key package due to Priority:
> standard.  It acts as a leaf package: Its only true reverse depends is the
> live-task-standard package.[reverse-depends]

you are forgetting packages using doc-debian in their autopkgtests.

> [ Other info ] I made a mistake uploading doc-debian 11.0 to unstable; that
> got accepted.  The version 11.1 is now available from
> http://mdcc.cx/tmp/doc-debian/ .  I've incorporated some small cosmetic
> changes next to the much needed document updates.  Attached is a 161 kB
> doc-debian_6.5-11.1.dsc-debdiff , as well as a summarizing 13kB
> doc-debian_6.5-11.1.dsc-debdiff-tldr .

Before your upload of 11.0, doc-debian contained:

/usr/share/doc-base/debian-constitution-text
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-mailing-lists
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-manifesto
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-reporting-bugs
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-social-contract

Then with 11.0 this became:

/usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-constitution-text
/usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-mailing-lists
/usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-manifesto
/usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-reporting-bugs
/usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-social-contract

This broke the autopkgtest of mmdebstrap which you can also see on the excuses
page for doc-debian: https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=doc-debian

Since I noticed this breakage, I uploaded a new version of mmdebstrap that
works around this problem, assuming that this change was intentional. In
hindsight, I probably should've contacted you instead because when
investigating http://mdcc.cx/tmp/doc-debian/doc-debian_11.1_all.deb and
comparing it to the version from unstable I see:

diff -u <(curl --silent 
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/doc-debian/doc-debian_11.0_all.deb 
| dpkg-deb -c - | awk '{print $6}' | sort) <(curl --silent 
http://mdcc.cx/tmp/doc-debian/doc-debian_11.1_all.deb | dpkg-deb -c - | awk 
'{print $6}' | sort)
--- /dev/fd/63  2023-05-11 08:18:34.782823397 +0200
+++ /dev/fd/62  2023-05-11 08:18:34.782823397 +0200
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 ./usr/share/
 ./usr/share/doc/
 ./usr/share/doc-base/
-./usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-constitution-text
-./usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-mailing-lists
-./usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-manifesto
-./usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-reporting-bugs
-./usr/share/doc-base/doc-debian.debian-social-contract
+./usr/share/doc-base/debian-constitution-text
+./usr/share/doc-base/debian-mailing-lists
+./usr/share/doc-base/debian-manifesto
+./usr/share/doc-base/debian-reporting-bugs
+./usr/share/doc-base/debian-social-contract
 ./usr/share/doc/debian/
 ./usr/share/doc/debian/bug-log-access.txt
 ./usr/share/doc/debian/bug-log-mailserver.txt.gz

What are the intended paths. Should I revert my changes to mmdebstrap or not?

Also, these changes of paths in /usr/share/doc-base/ forth and back are not
recorded in debian/changelog. If the change was intended, please document it.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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