Bug#751395: Do not compress perl scripts

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Thu Jun 12 15:30:20 UTC 2014


affects -1 src:gdcm
retitle -1 do not install runtime perl scripts in /usr/share/doc/

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 14:48, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Package: vtk6-doc
>> Version: 6.1.0+dfsg-5
>> Severity: important
>>
>> This is sort of a duplicate of 610964. Third party app expect the perl
>> scripts to not be compressed. Marking as important, but should be
>> grave since it will make package such as GDCM FTBFS.
>
> That would be a bug in GDCM:
>
> +--
> | Packages must not require the existence of any files in
> | /usr/share/doc/ in order to function [114].
> |
> | [114] The system administrator should be able to delete files in
> | /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.
> +--[ Debian Policy, 12.3 Additional documentation ]

Those are helper scripts around doxygen to get doxygen .tag to work
with VTK doc. I have no idea why they were installed here in the first
place.



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