[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1140748: emboss-doc: does not ship any documentation
Stepan
dabonatan at proton.me
Thu Jun 25 17:18:44 BST 2026
Package: emboss-doc
Version: 6.6.0+dfsg-18
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: dabonatan at proton.me
Dear Maintainer,
The package in question creates the folder structure and supplies some
meta-level files, but does not ship any actual documentation. Here is
the output of `dpkh -L emboss-doc`:
```
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/EMBOSS
/usr/share/EMBOSS/doc
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc/copyright
/usr/share/doc-base
/usr/share/doc-base/emboss-doc.domainatrix
/usr/share/doc-base/emboss-doc.emboss-apps
/usr/share/doc-base/emboss-doc.emboss-groups
/usr/share/doc-base/emboss-doc.emboss-qg
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc/ChangeLog.gz
/usr/share/doc/emboss-doc/doc
```
To get the documentation, I cloned the source of emboss package and
copied the documentation manually:
```bash
apt source emboss
cd emboss-6.6.0+dfsg/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/EMBOSS/doc/programs/text
sudo cp doc/programs/text/*.txt /usr/share/EMBOSS/doc/programs/text/
```
After that, `tfm` program from the emboss suite shows text doc files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12+deb14.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
emboss-doc depends on no packages.
emboss-doc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages emboss-doc suggests:
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 10.07.1~dfsg-1
ii zathura-pdf-poppler [pdf-viewer] 2026.05.10-1
ii zathura-ps [postscript-viewer] 2026.02.03-1
-- no debconf information
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