[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#709911: ghc-doc: postinst uses /usr/share/doc content (Policy 12.3)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: ghc-doc
Version: 7.6.3-2
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 ghc-doc.
  (Reading database ... 11179 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking ghc-doc (from .../ghc-doc_7.6.3-2_all.deb) ...
  Setting up ghc-doc (7.6.3-2) ...
  haddock: internal error: /usr/share/doc/ghc-doc/html/libraries/prologue.txt: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
  dpkg: error processing ghc-doc (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   ghc-doc


Cheers,

Andreas
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