Hello,
On 09/21/2015 09:50 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:06:58PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> Package: stress
>> Version: 1.0.1-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: Policy 12.2
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> according to
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/arm64/stress/filelist
>>
>> the stress package ships a file /usr/share/info/dir.gz on arm64.
>> Installing this package overwrites the index of installed info pages
>> making these inaccessible. Policy specifies "[/usr/share/info/dir] must
>> not be included in packages other than install-info." in 12.2.
>
> My packages had the same bug.
>
> This was the standard fix I used:
>
> [attachment that make stubs out the test for install-info in
> doc/Makefile.in]
Alternatively add
-rm /usr/share/info/dir
to debian/rules at the right place. Or for source packages with multiple
binary packages it's just a matter of making the pattern of files to
install more strict.
Best regards
Uwe
