Your message dated Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:41:33 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #945903,
regarding dh-python: py3compile in postinst fails on scripts in /usr/share/doc
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dh-python
Version: 4.20191017
Severity: serious
Justification: 14.3
Control: block 945338 -1
Control: block 945339 -1
dh_python3 sets up a py3compile entry in the postinst script for a
package containing python scripts.
dh_installexamples installs example scripts into
/usr/share/doc/<package>/examples
It is well possible that some of those example scripts may be python,
so they are detected by dh_python3 and registered for processing by
py3compile.
But we are currently being hit with RC bugs saying that this
situation is a serious bug, since it is possible that /usr/share/doc
may not be installed, might not be present, Debian Policy 12.3.
See for example petsc bug#945338, slepc bug#945339.
It seems to me reasonable that you would install to example python scripts
using dh_installexamples. Yes you could install elsewhere using
dh_install, but then what is the point of dh_installexamples?
In that case dh_python3 needs to be updated to comply with Policy
12.3, to let the py3compile snippet not break when acting on python
files in /usr/share/doc/*/examples
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dh-python depends on:
ii python3 3.7.5-3
ii python3-distutils 3.8.0-1
dh-python recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dh-python suggests:
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
I cannot reproduce this bug. I added a test case just in case, but after
looking at petsc source package (when it was still failing) - it looks
like dh_python3 was asked to use a directory under /usr/share/doc/ as
a private directory (so you really really wantend this behaviour)
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