Bug#484706: debian-policy: policy is not policy compliant?..

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.0
Severity: important
Justification: doesn't install

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Hi,

Shouldn't the debian-policy package follow the Debian policy?

# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up debian-policy (3.8.0.0) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy-process: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing debian-policy (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
debian-policy


And indeed, there is no file named /usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy-process.

This is on a heavily mixed (sarge)-etch-lenny-sid(-experimental) system.
But IIRC few things from elsewhere (only a few "leaf" packages like
w32codecs, IIRC).

Since I don't like to leave unconfigured packages around, I've just
uncommented this particular line in postinst for now. I'll (try) not
(to) install too much stuff just now in case you want to know other
versions of installed packages.

cheers
- -- vbi


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (199, 'oldstable'), (60, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

- -- no debconf information

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"Adrian von Bidder" <avbidder DeleteThis @fortytwo.ch> writes:

> Shouldn't the debian-policy package follow the Debian policy?
>
> # dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up debian-policy (3.8.0.0) ...
> /usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy-process: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing debian-policy (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debian-policy

Wow, how did it install for me? I build new packages and installed them
before uploading and didn't have any trouble, but sure enough, there's a
stray reference to that document, which was removed in this version. And
I have /usr/sbin/install-docs available, too. That's really odd.

Sorry about that. I'm uploading a fixed version now.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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