[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#709852: gridengine-common: postinst uses /usr/share/doc content (Policy 12.3): /usr/share/doc/gridengine-common/examples/gridengine.default

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: gridengine-common
Version: 6.2u5-7.1
Severity: serious
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/$PACKAGE and may be symlinked
from /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE.

This 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 gridengine-common.
  (Reading database ... 7142 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking gridengine-common (from .../gridengine-common_6.2u5-7.1_all.deb) ...
  Setting up gridengine-common (6.2u5-7.1) ...
  sed: can't read /usr/share/doc/gridengine-common/examples/gridengine.default: No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing gridengine-common (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   gridengine-common


Cheers,

Andreas
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