Bug#824831: gtkspell3: FTBFS: cp: cannot stat './AUTHORSREADME': No such file or directory

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2016-05-20 12:38:11)
> On 20/05/16 10:21, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>   dh_installdocs -plibgtkspell3-3-dev ./README ./NEWS ./AUTHORSREADME
>>   cp: cannot stat './AUTHORSREADME': No such file or directory
>>   dh_installdocs: cp --reflink=auto -a ./AUTHORSREADME debian/libgtkspell3-3-dev/usr/share/doc/libgtkspell3-3-dev returned exit code 1
>>   /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk:240: recipe for target 'binary-install/libgtkspell3-3-dev' failed
>>   make: *** [binary-install/libgtkspell3-3-dev] Error 2

> Unlike in #824740, I think we're using DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_$pkg properly here:
> 
> DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_libgtkspell3-3-0 =
> DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_libgtkspell3-3-dev = README
> 
> I would expect that to only install README, but not NEWS and AUTHORS. And
> certainly not AUTHORSREADME ;)

Yes, agreed: This is a CDBS bug!

(...and fixing this bug likely makes _symptoms_ of #824740 disappear)


> Looks like in the past this called:
> 
> dh_installdocs -plibgtkspell3-3-0 ./README ./AUTHORS
> dh_installdocs -plibgtkspell3-3-dev ./README ./AUTHORS README
> 
> See
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gtkspell3&arch=i386&ver=3.0.8-1&stamp=1461112198
> 
> Which is rather confusing. No idea if that is expected and what is the proper
> way to disable installation of docs.

Hmm, that looks buggy too - a different bug.  Thanks for spotting that!

 - Jonas

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