Bug#692946: cdd-dev: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> it is true that /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev does not contain a copyright file
> because it is simply a symlink to /usr/share/doc/blends-dev and the
> transitional (=empty) package cdd-dev depends from blends-dev.  So while
> the report is correct I would consider an upload at current time simply
> causing work for several people just to follow some rules with no profit
> for anybody.  I'd suggest to lower the priority of the bug and leave the
> package as is.
> 
> What do you think?

Hi Andreas,

if /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev were a symlink to /usr/share/doc/blends-dev,
then piuparts would have found the copyright file.

I think that what piuparts seems to have found, is that when upgrading
from lenny to squeeze to wheezy, /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev does
not become a symlink :

> >   MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev/copyright
> >   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Nov 10 07:33 /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev
> >   total 0
> >   drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   40 Nov 10 07:33 .
> >   drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 2660 Nov 10 07:35 ..

This really looks like an empty directory.

I would agree to downgrade the bug (cdd-dev is transitional and native,
there is anyway not copyrighted work to look for in this package),
but is the breakage limited to /usr/share/doc/cdd-dev/ ?

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan