Package: gcom Version: 0.32-2 Severity: serious User: [email protected] Usertags: piuparts
Hi, a test with piuparts revealed that your package misses the copyright file after an upgrade, which is a violation of Policy 12.5: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory. This was observed on the following upgrade paths: lenny -> squeeze -> ... >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 7m24.3s ERROR: WARN: Inadequate results from running adequate! gcom: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/gcom/copyright MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/gcom/copyright # ls -lad /usr/share/doc/gcom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Feb 13 15:14 /usr/share/doc/gcom # ls -la /usr/share/doc/gcom/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Feb 13 15:14 . drwxr-xr-x 116 root root 2460 Feb 13 15:15 .. Additional info may be available here: https://wiki.debian.org/MissingCopyrightFile Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this. See in particular the end of point 4 in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14) to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript. Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control. See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. But since this has been a transitional package since squeeze, maybe it is easiest to just drop it and add unversioned Breaks+Replaces against it to comgt to ensure the buggy package is removed on upgrades. cheers, Andreas
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