libgig compat 10 vs 11

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 03/01/18 20:09, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2018-01-03 20:07 GMT+01:00 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk>:
> 
>> Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2018-01-03 19:29:36)
>>> When bumped compat dh to 11 I am getting this errors ... files are
>>> installed same in doc package with dh 10 and 11
>>>
>>> E: libgig-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file libgig-doc:8
>>> /usr/share/doc/libgig-doc/html/index.html
>>> E: libgig-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file libgig-doc:9
>>> /usr/share/doc/libgig-doc/html/*
>>>
>>> Any idea how to fix this?
>>
>> What did debhelper documentation say about that change in compatibility
>> level?
> 
> ​I was checking before documentation there is quite a lot of about doc ...
> but I didn't found something related to this issue
> But I might be wrong :(

From debhelper(7) compat 11 section:
>            -       The dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples tools will now
>                    attempt to guess the "main package" for a given
>                    documentation package (e.g. pkg-doc will have pkg as main
>                    package if the latter exists).  If a main package is
>                    found, most of the documentation will be installed into
>                    /usr/share/doc/main-pkg by default as recommended by
>                    Debian policy §12.3 since version 3.9.7.  Notable
>                    exceptions include the copyright file and changelog files.
> 
>                    The --doc-main-package option can be used when the auto-
>                    detection is insufficient.

It isn't stated there, but for packages named "libX-doc", the main
package becomes "libX-dev", so if you run debdiff on the old and new
libgig-doc, you should find the documentation has moved to
/usr/share/doc/libgig-dev.

James

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