[Piuparts-devel] Bug#798698: icewm: copyright file missing (policy 12.5)

[Sven Joachim]

Control: reassign -1 icewm 1.3.8+githubmod+20150818+ad97152-1

Am 12.09.2015 um 09:43 schrieb Eduard Bloch:

> Control: reassign 798698 piuparts
>
> Hallo,
> * Andreas Beckmann [Fri, Sep 11 2015, 09:07:14PM]:
>> Package: icewm
>> Version: 1.3.8+githubmod+20150818+ad97152-1
>> Severity: serious
>> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: piuparts
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> a test with piuparts revealed that your package misses the copyright
>> file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
>> 
>> >From the attached log (scroll to the middle...):
>> 
>> 0m35.9s ERROR: WARN: Inadequate results from running adequate!
>>   icewm: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/icewm/copyright
>> 
>>   # ls -la /usr/share/doc/icewm/
>>   total 12
>>   drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   60 Aug 22 21:34 .
>>   drwxr-xr-x 136 root root 2860 Aug 22 21:34 ..
>>   -rw-r--r--   1 root root 8271 Aug 18 10:33 preferences.gz
>
> WTF? /usr/share/doc/icewm is a symlink to icewm-common and 
>
> $ less icewm-common_1.3.8+githubmod+20150818+ad97152-1_amd64.deb | grep copyright
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1695 2015-08-18 11:43 ./usr/share/doc/icewm-common/copyright
>
> I checked more file contents lists, they all look fine.
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/icewm-common

There is one thing which is _not_ fine, icewm-common inadvertently ships
the file /usr/share/doc/icewm/preferences.gz, so if icewm-common is
unpacked before icewm, /usr/share/doc/icewm ends up as a directory
rather than a symlink.

Cheers,
       Sven