Package: libgdbm3
Version: 1.8.3-12
Severity: serious

libgdbm3 ships /usr/share/info/gdbm.info.gz, which isn't versioned (e.g.
libgdbm3.info.gz or a versioned folder would be ok). This violates Policy
8.2.:

"If your package contains files whose names do not change with each change
in the library shared object version, you must not put them in the shared
library package."

I noticed this because gdbm.info.gz contains the texinfo version in the
beginning (as is normal for info files) and thus the file may differ in
different architectures if it gets built against different texinfo versions,
causing problems with multiarch as we have seen on #752465.

Since gdbm.info.gz is a manual for developers, it could be moved to
libgdbm-dev, solving this. The manpages are there already so that seems like
an appropriate place.

Thanks,
Emilio


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