Bug#977405: libgtkdatabox-dev, libgtkdatabox-doc: both ship /usr/share/doc/libgtkdatabox-dev/{AUTHORS, README}

[Graham Inggs]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:03, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>   Preparing to unpack .../libgtkdatabox-doc_1%3a0.9.3.1-1.1_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking libgtkdatabox-doc (1:0.9.3.1-1.1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtkdatabox-doc_1%3a0.9.3.1-1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/libgtkdatabox-dev/AUTHORS', which is also in package libgtkdatabox-dev 1:0.9.3.1-1.1+b1
>   dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtkdatabox-doc_1%3a0.9.3.1-1.1_all.deb

I found it confusing that debian/libgtkdatabox-doc.docs is installing
to /usr/share/doc/libgtkdatabox-dev in the libgtkdatabox-doc binary,
but this seems in line with policy §12.3 and changed with debhelper
11.

I think the solution here is to move the examples from the
libgtkdatabox-dev binary to the libgtkdatabox-doc binary and also fix
#857776 at the same time.

I'll take another look at this tomorrow.