Bug#44643: marked as done (packaging-manual: packaging-manual won't install)
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Subject: packaging-manual: packaging-manual won't install
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Package: packaging-manual
Version: 3.0.1.1
Severity: normal
drpepper:~# apt-get install packaging-manual
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
packaging-manual
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 148kB of archives. After unpacking 313kB will be used.
Get:1 http://linux.rice.edu potato/main packaging-manual 3.0.1.1 [148kB]
Fetched 148kB in 0s (355kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package packaging-manual.
(Reading database ... 33727 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking packaging-manual (from /var/cache/apt/archives/packaging-manual_3.0.1. 1_all.deb) ...
Setting up packaging-manual (3.0.1.1) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 610.
dpkg: error processing packaging-manual (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
packaging-manual
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
doc-base is at version 0.7.5, neither dhelp nor dwww are installed. This is
an up-to-date potato system.
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Debian Release: potato
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Subject: Fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0
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From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
These bugs have been fixed in debian-policy 3.1.0.0; changelog follows.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
Changes: debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
#45561, #42447, #48570)
* Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
* Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
* Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
directoried (closes: #41547)
* FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
* Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
* Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
* Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
* Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
* Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
* Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
* Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
package criteria (closes: #45318)
* Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
#41829)
* Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
* Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
* Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
* Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
* Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
* Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
* Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
#40766, #40767)
* Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
* Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
* packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
* The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
(closes: #17621)
* Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
#19179)
* Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
#41095)
* s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
* Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
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