Bug#962588: linux-image-amd64:amd64: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#962588: linux-image-amd64:amd64: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright
Date	2020-06-16 18:50 +0200
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Control: found -1 5.3.2-1~exp1

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:55:17 +0200 Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Package: linux-image-amd64
> Version: 5.6.14-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.3
> 
> tglase@tglase:~ $ ll /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/
> total 0
> tglase@tglase:~ $ ll -d /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 21  2019 /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/

This is the dpkg bug where it fails to replace a directory with a
symlink.  For some reason that requires workarounds in every other
package instead of being fixed in dpkg.

This instance was introduced by:

commit 70af1a4e805ba7f355fb69b3a041b3fdb9b977dd
Author: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Tue Oct 1 22:27:29 2019 +0100

    Require metapackage dependencies to be the same version, and link doc dirs

Ben.

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Bug#962588: linux-image-amd64:amd64: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-06-16 18:50 +0200
  Bug#962588: linux-image-amd64:amd64: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-06-16 19:10 +0200
  Bug#962588: linux-image-amd64:amd64: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/linux-image-amd64/copyright Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2020-06-16 20:20 +0200

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