Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:28:13 +0100 Tomasz Buchert <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 11 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I wanted to switch nghttp2 to compat=11, but this causes binaries-have-file- > conflict: > > W: nghttp2 source: binaries-have-file-conflict libnghttp2-dev libnghttp2-doc > usr/share/doc/libnghttp2-dev/AUTHORS > W: nghttp2 source: binaries-have-file-conflict libnghttp2-dev libnghttp2-doc > usr/share/doc/libnghttp2-dev/README.rst.gz > > The conflicting files are installed in /usr/share/doc/libnghttp2-dev, although > the package is libnghttp2-doc. > > What happens is that "dh_installdocs -A" (which I have in debian/rules) does > autodetection magic which decides to put the docs of libnghttp2-dev in > libnghttp2-doc. The culprit is the code in compute_doc_main_package which > special-cases lib/doc packages, I believe > > This can be worked around by using --doc-main-package, but I think there is > something wrong happening here. > > > > [...]
Hi, It is documented in the compat level changes (man 7 debhelper) that there is a change in install location and that it is in order to easily comply with Policy 12.3 (since 3.9.7). It is certainly unfortunate that the -A option for dh_installdocs (and dh_installexamples) now trigger a file-conflict by default. I am all ears to what a better solution would be with -A and Policy 12.3. Thanks, ~Niels
