Package: gcc-snapshot
Version: 20090224-1
Severity: normal

This issue affects Emdebian Grip in gcc-4.3 but I'm filing it here because Grip 
has
a workaround that is OK for 4.3 and I'm trying to fix the problem before 4.4 
arrives.
Please let me know if I did that wrong.

The -base postinst script does check if a copyright file already exists but 
then does not
check that .copyright also exists.

Emdebian Grip has specialised handling of ./usr/share/doc/ to remove 
documentation and
compress all copyright files to save space. Therefore, the postinst fails 
because
..copyright does not exist, ./copyright.gz does instead. (changelog.Debian.gz 
is also
removed, along with everything else in ./usr/share/doc/$package/). Emdebian 
currently
has an adapted Policy for such changes with a hope to include suitable 
exceptions at
some point in the future.

Emdebian Grip does not recompile packages, it is binary-compatible with Debian 
so that
users can choose to install the equivalent Debian package if appropriate, so 
the underlying
functionality needs to be retained, even if the Grip package lacks the data 
files.

(Cross-building is used for Emdebian Crush, a smaller variant that is not 
binary-compatible
with Debian or Grip.)

It would be much appreciated if the postinst could check for .copyright and do 
nothing
if it does not exist.

Something like:

#! /bin/sh -e

case "$1" in
    configure)
        # see #355439, packaging error in 4.0.2-9*
        docdir=/usr/share/doc/g...@bv@-base
        if [ ! -f $docdir/copyright ]; then
+                       if [ -f $docdir/.copyright ]; then
            ln $docdir/.copyright $docdir/copyright
+                       fi
        fi
        if [ ! -f $docdir/changelog.Debian.gz ]; then
+                       if [ -f $docdir/.changelog.Debian.gz ]; then
            ln $docdir/.changelog.Debian.gz $docdir/changelog.Debian.gz
+                       fi
        fi
esac

?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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