Hello, I think I fixed this with a maintscript, but this is the first time I do so. I'd feel better if you could double-check that I did it right, eg by rerunning the script, please.
Thanks for your work, Mt. On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 11:33:34PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: quilt-el > Version: 0.63-5 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > 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/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory. > > This was observed on the following upgrade paths: > > wheezy -> jessie (no package in jessie, keeping wheezy version > installed) -> stretch > > >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > 3m38.6s ERROR: WARN: Inadequate results from running adequate! > quilt-el: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/quilt-el/copyright > > 3m43.4s DUMP: > MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/quilt-el/copyright > # ls -lad /usr/share/doc/quilt-el > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Sep 15 10:31 /usr/share/doc/quilt-el > # ls -la /usr/share/doc/quilt-el/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Sep 15 10:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 294 root root 6060 Sep 15 10:31 .. > > > Additional info may be available here: > https://wiki.debian.org/MissingCopyrightFile > > Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks > and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this. > See in particular the end of point 4 in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase > > It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands > 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14) > to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript. > Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control. > See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. > > > cheers, > > Andreas -- You have a problem and decide to use floats. Now you have 2.000000000001 problems.
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