Package: libpython-all-dbg
Version: 2.7.5-3
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:

  jessie -> sid

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

  MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/libpython-all-dbg/copyright
  # ls -lad /usr/share/doc/libpython-all-dbg
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Aug  2 13:37 /usr/share/doc/libpython-all-dbg
  # ls -la /usr/share/doc/libpython-all-dbg/
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   40 Aug  2 13:37 .
  drwxr-xr-x 90 root root 1960 Aug  2 13:36 ..


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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