Package: libgmime-3.0-doc
Version: 3.2.9+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: adequate broken-symlink
Tags: patch

libgmime-3.0-doc 3.2.9+dfsg-1 introduced a broken symlink:

   /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README -> README.md

It looks like what happened is the upstream README file got turned into
a symlink to README.md but nothing in the package installs README.md.

So I think the debian/libgmime-3.0-doc.docs file should get updated to
install the upstream README.md file instead of the README symlink.

Here is some more information about the broken symlink:
   
   Log started: 2022-03-11  12:24:59
   apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
   apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
   Preparing to unpack .../libgmime-3.0-doc_3.2.9+dfsg-1_all.deb ...
   Unpacking libgmime-3.0-doc (3.2.9+dfsg-1) over (3.2.7-1) ...
   Setting up libgmime-3.0-doc (3.2.9+dfsg-1) ...
   Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.1) ...
   Processing 1 removed doc-base file, 1 added doc-base file...
   Log ended: 2022-03-11  12:26:12
   
   $ adequate libgmime-3.0-doc
   libgmime-3.0-doc: broken-symlink /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README -> 
README.md
   
   $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar  9 15:28 /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README 
-> README.md
   
   $ chase /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README
   chase: /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README.md: No such file or directory
   
   $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README.md
   ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/libgmime-3.0-dev/README.md': No such file 
or directory
   
   $ chronic apt source gmime
   
   $ ls -l gmime*/README*
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 pabs pabs   9 Mar  8 09:31 gmime-3.2.9+dfsg/README -> README.md
   -rw-r----- 1 pabs pabs 32K Mar  8 09:31 gmime-3.2.9+dfsg/README.md
   
   $ grep README gmime*/debian/*-doc*
   gmime-3.2.9+dfsg/debian/libgmime-3.0-doc.docs:README
   gmime-3.2.9+dfsg/debian/libgmime-3.0-doc.examples:examples/README
   
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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