Package: libxapian-ruby1.9.1,libxapian-ruby1.8
Version: 1.2.15-2
Severity: serious
User: debian...@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:
http://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:

  wheezy->jessie

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.9.1/copyright
  # ls -lad /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.9.1
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 May 23 06:58 /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.9.1
  # ls -la /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.9.1/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   40 May 23 06:58 .
  drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 1880 May 23 06:58 ..

  MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.8/copyright
  # ls -lad /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.8
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 May 23 07:04 /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.8
  # ls -la /usr/share/doc/libxapian-ruby1.8/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   40 May 23 07:04 .
  drwxr-xr-x 90 root root 1920 May 23 07:04 ..


Additional info may be available here:
http://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
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase

For switching from a directory to a symlink the *postinst* script
should do something like this:

        DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/@@PACKAGE@@
        DOCLINK=@@OTHERPACKAGE@@

        if [ -d $DOCDIR ] && [ ! -L $DOCDIR ]; then
                rmdir $DOCDIR
                ln -s $DOCLINK $DOCDIR
        fi

For switching from a symlink to a directory, the *preinst* script
should do something like this:

        DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/@@PACKAGE@@

        if [ -L $DOCDIR ]; then
                rm $DOCDIR
        fi


cheers,

Andreas

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