Ubuntu
installation-guide package

unexpected debhelper behavior renders postinst inoperative

Bug #28512 reported by Emmet Hikory
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
installation-guide (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Tollef Fog Heen

Bug Description

    When upgrading to 20060102ubuntu2, the following error is reported by aptitude:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up installation-guide-amd64 (20060102ubuntu2) ...
cannot create dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/installation-guide-%ARCH%/%LANG%/.dhelp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing installation-guide-amd64 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 installation-guide-amd64

    The error appears to be related to the first of the two automatically installed stanzas, where the sed logic in debian/rules seems not to have applied. Note that the package also includes the file /usr/share/doc-base/installation-guide-%ARCH%-%LANG%, which seems to contain the verbatim contents of debian/rules/doc-base.TEMPLATE.

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote :

Further investigation leads me to believe that dh_installdocs is confused, and believes that installation-guide-amd64 is the MAINPACKAGE, and therefore installs both installation-guide-amd64.doc-base.* and doc-base.TEMPLATE. This bug does not appear in other architectures.

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote : Workaround for MAINPACKAGE behavior

To avoid the debhelper MAINPACKAGE behaviour, doc-base.TEMPLATE was renamed to generic.doc-base.TEMPLATE, thereby no longer being bare, and not caught by the laazy maintainer filters in dh_installdocs.

Emmet Hikory (persia)
Changed in installation-guide:
assignee: nobody → ubuntu-doc
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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

The Documentation Project doesn't work on this package, so I'm unassigning it.

Changed in installation-guide:
assignee: ubuntu-doc → nobody
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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

Colin, any idea about this?

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote :

My apologies: I guessed based on the history of #4637.

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in installation-guide:
assignee: nobody → tfheen
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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

dh_installdocs is acting according to its design. Since installation-guide-amd64 is the first package in the control file, it is the main package.

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote :

The dh_installdocs behaviour makes sense now (after investigation), but I still believe that installation-guide needs to rename the doc-base.TEMPLATE file to avoid the annoying postinstall behaviour for installation-guide-amd64.

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

installation-guide (20060102ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low

  * Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base. Malone #28512

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:09:29 +0200

Changed in installation-guide:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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