Bug#390093: gcc-4.1-doc: Overwrites copyright and Debian changelog of gcc-4.1-base

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

I would suggest renaming the binary -doc packages, and providing the
original ones.

Sven Joachim writes:
> Package: gcc-4.1-doc-non-dfsg
> Version: 4.1.1-nf1
> Severity: serious
> 
> In previous versions of gcc-4.1-doc (up to 4.1.1-10),
> /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-doc was a symlink to gcc-4.1-base.  Because
> dpkg follows the symlink when upgrading the package, your files end up
> in /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-base, overwriting the files there (dpkg does
> not detect that clash, unfortunately).
> 
> To resolve this issue, I suggest you create a prescript which tests if
> usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-doc is a symlink and, if this is the case,
> removes it.  Note that you must take care to delete spurious files
> from previous versions of the gcc-4.1-doc package in
> usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-base as well.
> 
> Since the other packages built from the same source probably have the
> same problem :-(, I've assigned this bug to the source package.
> 
> Good luck in resolving this mess and thanks for packaging the GCC
> documentation.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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