[debhelper-devel] Bug#830309: freetype FTBFS: install: cannot change permissions of 'debian/libfreetype6-dev/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6-dev': No such file or directory

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-07-08 09:53 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:

> Sven Joachim:
>> Control: reassign -1 debhelper 9.20160702
>> Control: tags -1 + patch
>> 
>> Am 08.07.2016 um 07:07 schrieb Helmut Grohne:
>> 
>>> [...]
>> 
>> It's a regression in debhelper 9.20160702 that is triggered if a package
>> symlinks its doc directory with "dh_installdocs --link-doc" _and_
>> installs additional documentation there.  Attached is a patch which
>> fixes that (at least in the freetype case since this is the only package
>> I have tested in on ;-)).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>        Sven
>> 
>
> Thanks, I have applied it to master and it will be part of the next
> debhelper release. :)

Unfortunately my patch breaks dh_installdocs in compat 11 mode, as I
have just discovered. :-/  Will look into it, but I'm not too familiar
with debhelper yet, and my perl skills are rusty.

Cheers,
       Sven