severity 310299 important
thanks

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:35:24PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> It seems that this change

>   * Make /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-<lang> symlink to gimp-help-common,

> from 0.7-2 did not work as gimp-help-en and gimp-help-de both have an
> empty /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/ directory now; violating policy 12.5
> and 12.7 at least.

> I can see that the current package is shipped with a symlink, but that
> does not help (dpkg limitation?):

>   ~# ls -ld /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-en
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-26 20:15 /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-en/
>   ~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-help-en_2+0.8-1_all.deb 
>   (Reading database ... 162675 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to replace gimp-help-en 2+0.8-1 (using 
> .../gimp-help-en_2+0.8-1_all.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement gimp-help-en ...
>   Setting up gimp-help-en (2+0.8-1) ...

>   ~# ls -ld /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-en
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-03-26 20:15 /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-en/

> Maybe you should fix up things in a maintainer script?

Because there was no version of gimp-help-en in woody that will be affected
by this upgrade issue, this is not a release-critical bug.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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