Followup-For: Bug #943874

In sid pure-ftpd:amd64 ships

lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2019-10-30 17:37 ./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd -> 
pure-ftpd-common

but pure-ftpd-common:all (which gets unpacked first) ships

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-30 17:37 ./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     12844 2019-10-30 17:37 ./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/FAQ.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2090 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.Authentication-Modules.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1124 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.Configuration-File
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4238 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.LDAP.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1004 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.MacOS-X
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3684 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.MySQL.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3312 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.PGSQL.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5711 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.TLS.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4497 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/README.Virtual-Users.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4289 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2009 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-ldap.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3455 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2976 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-pgsql.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2548 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.schema
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3493 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/AUTHORS.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2245 2011-09-07 05:02 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/HISTORY
-rw-r--r-- root/root        44 2019-03-25 15:48 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/NEWS.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2090 2019-03-25 17:10 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Authentication-Modules.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1124 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Configuration-File
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1311 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2071 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Donations.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4238 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.LDAP.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3684 2018-02-09 13:03 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.MySQL.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      3312 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.PGSQL.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5711 2019-03-25 15:48 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.TLS.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4497 2018-01-04 12:13 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Virtual-Users.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     26547 2019-03-25 18:25 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      6561 2018-02-26 00:19 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/THANKS.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7899 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     36745 2019-04-03 11:01 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1463 2019-10-30 17:37 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2548 2011-09-07 05:02 
./usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/pureftpd.schema

Note the duplication of some README files.

As a result there is no /usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd/copyright, which is a policy
violation on its own.

It is bad practice to have -doc symlinks from arch:any to arch:all packages.

Andreas

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