Package: git
Version: 1:1.7.2.5-2
Severity: normal
Hello Gerrit,
git-core includes a script post-receive-email in the directory
/usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks, that read:
# This hook is stored in the contrib/hooks directory. Your distribution
# will have put this somewhere standard. You should make this script
# executable then link to it in the repository you would like to use it in.
# For example, on debian the hook is stored in
# /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email:
#
# chmod a+x post-receive-email
# cd /path/to/your/repository.git
# ln -sf /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
hooks/post-receive
However policy 12.3 apply:
Packages must not require the existence of any files in
`/usr/share/doc/' in order to function [1]. Any files that are
referenced by programs but are also useful as stand alone
documentation should be installed under `/usr/share/<package>/' with
symbolic links from `/usr/share/doc/<package>'.
The purpose of this policy being that it allows the admin to remove
/usr/share/doc/
without breaking the system. However the instructions above breaks that property
because the symlink would became stale.
So it would be better to put the scripts in /usr/share/git.
Similarly the default .git/hooks/post-receive reads
# see contrib/hooks/ for an sample, or uncomment the next line (on debian)
. /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
Furthermore in sid, if the user removes git-core as advised, then
/usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
is not valid, so this will cause problems to users after the upgrade.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>
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