[Piuparts-devel] Bug#709749: vdr: postinst uses /usr/share/doc content (Policy 12.3)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: vdr
Version: 2.0.1-2
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

a test with piuparts revealed that your package uses files from
/usr/share/doc in its maintainer scripts which is a violation of
Policy 12.3: "Packages must not require the existence of any files in
/usr/share/doc/ in order to function."
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.3

These files must be moved to /usr/share/$PACKAGE any may be symlinked
from /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE.

The piuparts tests prevents the installation of (most) files into
/usr/share/doc with 'dpkg --path-exclude=...'.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package vdr.
  (Reading database ... 6997 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking vdr (from .../archives/vdr_2.0.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
  Setting up vdr (2.0.1-2) ...
  gzip: /usr/share/doc/vdr/examples/channels.conf.gz: No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing vdr (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   vdr


Cheers,

Andreas

PS: this is the first bug discovered by the new sid-nodoc piuparts test
suite: http://piuparts.debian.org/sid-nodoc/
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