Bug#692946: cdd-dev: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)
On 2012-11-15 09:20, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> could you please
>
> [ ] agree
> [ ] disagree
>
> to the suggestion to lower the priority of this bug. I would like to
> deal with this as quick as possible but I would like to hear your opinion
> about the action that should be done.
I'm not sure how to deal with this bug properly: missing copyright file
in empty transitional package, already caused by a lenny->squeeze
update. Therefore Cc:ing -release@ for their opinion on this (currently
RC) bug.
>From the piuparts point of view I'd rather like to see this fixed in the
package than working around this in piuparts (IIRC this is blocking
about 50 rdepends from being checked).
The transitional package should have been dropped for wheezy (but there
wasn't any new upload after squeeze).
For fixing this in jessie I'd propose to drop cdd-dev and add
Package: blends-dev
Conflicts: cdd-dev
Replaces: cdd-dev
to get rid of installations of the old faulty package.
Andreas
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 08:35:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> 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
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