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regarding perl: policy violation with the current /usr/share/doc symlinks
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Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-19
Severity: important
As revealed by lintian, shipping /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright
in perl-base and symlinking /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl
is a policy violation. Quoting the policy:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy
of its copyright and distribution license in the file
/usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed
nor be a symbolic link.
[...]
/usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in
/usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source
and the first package Depends on the second. These rules are important
because copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs
Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed
copy of the debian/changelog file from the Debian source tree in
/usr/share/doc/package with the name changelog.Debian.gz.
Is there a historical reason for the current setup or is it just cosmetics?
It's not causing any problems AFAIK, but I suppose we can't just ignore policy
here.
For reference, the current state is broadly
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl/Documentation (and others in perl/)
perl-modules /usr/share/doc/perl-modules -> perl
perl /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes.gz (and others in perl/)
perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl-doc -> perl
perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes5.000.gz (and others in perl/)
giving justified lintian errors
E: perl-base: usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency perl
E: perl: no-copyright-file
E: perl: debian-changelog-file-missing-or-wrong-name
The best fix I can see is something like
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl-base/copyright
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl-base/changelog.Debian.gz
perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl/Documentation (and others in perl/)
perl /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright
perl /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz
perl /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes.gz (and others in perl/)
perl-modules /usr/share/doc/perl-modules -> perl
perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl-doc -> perl
perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes5.000.gz (and others in perl/)
which would duplicate the copyright information and changelog.Debian.gz
between perl and perl-base.
Possibly, changelog.Debian.gz (but not copyright, as per the policy
snippet above) could even be symlinked from perl to perl-base if we can
rule out any possibility of a symlink loop with partial upgrades. The
35 kilobytes that Emdebian will strip anyway may not be worth the
complication.
The new perl package would need a
Replaces: perl-base (<= 5.10.0-19)
but I can't see any other obvious upgrade gotchas.
More eyeballs are certainly be welcome.
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Niko Tyni [email protected]
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Source: perl
Source-Version: 5.30.0-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Niko Tyni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated perl package)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:10:54 +0300
Source: perl
Architecture: source
Version: 5.30.0-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Closes: 522827 930073
Changes:
perl (5.30.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* The Debian Perl Sprint 2019 release.
.
[ Niko Tyni ]
* Switch to git-debrebase for managing debian/patches.
* Switch to debhelper for building the package.
+ Fix nonstandard /usr/share/doc symlinks. (Closes: #522827)
* Verify Configure regeneration in an autopkgtest check.
(Closes: #930073)
* Update cross build support files with 5.30.0-1 information.
.
[ Dominic Hargreaves ]
* Document git-debrebase
* Remove redundant Patch-Name headers from commits
* Add salsa-ci.yml
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