skype package has no docs after upgrade

[Tormod Volden]

After upgrading from 1.4, the skype 2.0.0.27-0medibuntu1 package has an empty /usr/share/doc/skype directory instead of a link to skype-common.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Thanks for your bug report.

I can't reproduce it unfortunately. Here, /usr/share/doc/skype is a link to /usr/share/doc/skype-common;

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

$ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/skype
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-18 15:20 /usr/share/doc/skype

$ dpkg -L skype
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/skype
/usr/share/doc/skype

This was after upgrading from skype 1.4.0.118dynamic+static-0medibuntu3 but I don't know how it was before.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Uninstalling skype and reinstalling fixed it. It must be an upgrade issue. Maybe it was broken in 1.4 and a normal upgrade does not fix it.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

The current 1.4 package already has this change. This probably comes from an old 1.4 version (before gutsy release) or from the 1.3.
Thanks.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Fixed in skype 2.0.0.43-0medibuntu1.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Upgrade is broken:

Preparing to replace skype 2.0.0.27-0medibuntu1 (using .../skype_2.0.0.43-0medibuntu1_i386.deb) ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/skype/': Not a directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/skype_2.0.0.43-0medibuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace skype-common 2.0.0.27-0medibuntu1 (using .../skype-common_2.0.0.43-0medibuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement skype-common ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/skype_2.0.0.43-0medibuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

You have to remove the trailing slashes in the preinst.

$ file /usr/share/doc/skype
/usr/share/doc/skype: symbolic link to `skype-common'

$ file /usr/share/doc/skype/
/usr/share/doc/skype/: directory

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Yeah, ok, I'm stupid ^_~
It should be fixed in the -0medibuntu2 revision.
Thanks.