Package: libdumbnet-dev
Version: 1.12-4
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
a test with piuparts revealed that your package misses the copyright
file after an upgrade, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory.
This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
4m9.4s ERROR: WARN: Inadequate results from running adequate!
libdumbnet-dev: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/libdumbnet-dev/copyright
MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/libdumbnet-dev/copyright
# ls -lad /usr/share/doc/libdumbnet-dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Jan 15 15:20 /usr/share/doc/libdumbnet-dev
# ls -la /usr/share/doc/libdumbnet-dev/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Jan 15 15:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 116 root root 2460 Jan 15 15:21 ..
Additional info may be available here:
https://wiki.debian.org/MissingCopyrightFile
Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks
and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this.
See in particular the end of point 4 in
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase
It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands
'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14)
to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript.
Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
cheers,
Andreas
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