[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#893577: sbuild-debian-developer-setup: Should not rely on files in /usr/share/doc

[Michael Stapelberg]

josch, could you let me know whether the attached patch does what you have
in mind please? Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > At the end of the script, it runs
> >
> >     symlink("/usr/share/doc/sbuild/examples/sbuild-update-all",
> "/etc/cron.daily/sbuild-debian-developer-setup-update-all");
> >
> > which requires the file in /usr/share/doc to be present. Policy 12.3
> says that
> > packages can't do that and says that such files should be in
> > /usr/share/package with a symlink into /usr/share/doc/package/ as
> > appropriate.
>
> probably the right thing to do would be to let the
> sbuild-debian-developer-setup package directly install sbuild-update-all
> into
> /etc/cron.daily/sbuild-debian-developer-setup-update-all. If necessary,
> sbuild-update-all has to be adapted such that it will not barf if the user
> has
> not yet run sbuild-debian-developer-setup.
>
> This would mean that the same copy of sbuild-update-all would potentially
> exist
> twice on a system, but I don't think that's much of a problem.
>
> Michael, can you take care of this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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