[Build-common-hackers] Bug#369268: debhelper.mk: installs common docs instead of docs listed in package.docs

[Micha Lenk]

Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.39-0.1
Severity: normal

Hello,

in case of a multiple binary package consider the case that
- there exists a README file in the $(CURDIR)
- there exists another README file in a subdirectory
- one of the packages wants to install the README file from the
  subdirectory instead of the README from $(CURDIR)

cdbs is unable to do this using per-package *.docs files because it
supplies the $(CURDIR)/README in $DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL always, even if
another README should be installed when looking at package.docs.  This
causes dh_installdocs to first install the README file mentioned in
package.docs and afterwards installing the README file from $(CURDIR)
mentioned in $DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL overwriting the first README.

This bug is somewhat related to #207775 (if #207775 were fixed this new
bug wouldn't occur at all).

I attached a package source which is reduced to the files needed to
reproduce this bug. The resulting package should contain the README from
subdir but contains the README from $(CURDIR).

Yours
  Micha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

cdbs depends on no packages.

Versions of packages cdbs recommends:
ii  autotools-dev                 20060223.1 Update infrastructure for config.{
ii  debhelper                     5.0.35     helper programs for debian/rules

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