Package: python-coverage-dbg
Version: 3.4-2
Severity: serious

After 3.4-1 -> 3.4-2 upgrade, /usr/share/doc/python-coverage-dbg/* don't exist anymore:

# ls -l /usr/share/doc/python-coverage-dbg/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2486 Jul 27  2011 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7299 Sep 19  2010 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1811 Jul 27  2011 copyright

# dpkg -i python-coverage_3.4-2_i386.deb python-coverage-dbg_3.4-2_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 11851 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-coverage 3.4-1 (using 
python-coverage_3.4-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-coverage ...
Preparing to replace python-coverage-dbg 3.4-1 (using 
python-coverage-dbg_3.4-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-coverage-dbg ...
Setting up python-coverage (3.4-2) ...
Setting up python-coverage-dbg (3.4-2) ...

# ls -l /usr/share/doc/python-coverage-dbg/
total 0


Let me quote Debian Policy §6.6:

A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory or vice
versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and
‘dpkg’ will follow the symlink if there is one.

--
Jakub Wilk



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