Comment 2 for bug 6929

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:05:22 +0200
From: Ludovic Rousseau <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: no copyright or changelog.Debian.gz in /usr/share/doc/vim-common/

Package: vim-common
Version: 1:6.3-010+1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.5 and 12.7 (at least)

I was also a victim of bug #257359 (vim-common 1:6.3-010+1 breaks vim
1:6.2-532+4) and discovered that /usr/share/doc/vim-common/ is _empty_.

Debian policy:

  12.7 Changelog files

  Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
  the debian/changelog file from the Debian source tree in
  /usr/share/doc/package with the name changelog.Debian.gz.

  12.5 Copyright information

  Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
  and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.
  This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link.

You should duplicate the files from /usr/share/doc/vim/.

I don't think a symlink (from /usr/share/doc/vim to
/usr/share/doc/vim-common) is a good since vim and vim-common may come
from different Debian package versions (as is the case in the bug
#257359). Unless you change vim-common dependency to an _exact_ vim
version (so that both packages have the same version number and can
share the same changelog file).

Bye,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR

Versions of packages vim-common depends on:
ii vim 1:6.3-010+1 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

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