Bug#797782: gtk2hs-buildtools: contains bogus /usr/share/doc/ directory

Justin B Rye justin.byam.rye at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 13:49:22 UTC 2015


Package: gtk2hs-buildtools
Version: 0.13.0.4-1
Severity: normal

I happened to notice while grepping the Contents file that this
library puts some upstream documentation in the wrong place:

	dpkg -L gtk2hs-buildtools
	/.
	[...]
	/usr/share/doc
	/usr/share/doc/gtk2hs-buildtools
	/usr/share/doc/gtk2hs-buildtools/changelog.Debian.gz
	/usr/share/doc/gtk2hs-buildtools/buildinfo_i386.gz
	/usr/share/doc/gtk2hs-buildtools/copyright
	/usr/share/doc/i386-linux-ghc-7.8.4
	/usr/share/doc/i386-linux-ghc-7.8.4/gtk2hs-buildtools-0.13.0.4
 =====>	/usr/share/doc/i386-linux-ghc-7.8.4/gtk2hs-buildtools-0.13.0.4/COPYING.gz
	/usr/share/gtk2hs-buildtools
	[...]

The file in question turns out just to be a copy of the GPL, so nobody
is likely to care about not being able to find it, but the directory
name that gtk2hs-buildtools is hogging is one that could in principle
clash with a valid inhabitant of the /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/
namespace....

(This bug is new since the version in Jessie.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-rc8-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gtk2hs-buildtools depends on:
ii  libc6     2.19-19
ii  libffi6   3.2.1-3
ii  libgmp10  2:6.0.0+dfsg-7

gtk2hs-buildtools recommends no packages.

gtk2hs-buildtools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package



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