Package: python-kiwi Version: 1.9.13-2 Severity: serious though documentation doesn't normally warrant a high severity, i've set the severity to serious as policy says, "Plain text documentation should be installed in the directory /usr/share/doc/package, where package is the name of the package..." [1]
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.3 after upgrading a handful of python packages yesterday, i noticed the following new directory reported by both aide and integrit: /usr/share/doc/kiwi. $ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/{python-,}kiwi python-kiwi: /usr/share/doc/python-kiwi python-kiwi: /usr/share/doc/kiwi $ ls -al /usr/share/doc/{python-,}kiwi /usr/share/doc/kiwi: total 236 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-04-12 07:09 . drwxr-xr-x 1404 root root 57344 2007-04-13 22:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 126976 2007-04-12 07:09 api -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038 2007-01-18 11:45 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25647 2007-02-01 11:19 ChangeLog.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-03-03 10:20 howto -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2162 2007-02-01 11:18 NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3197 2006-09-15 10:42 README /usr/share/doc/python-kiwi: total 356 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-04-12 07:09 . drwxr-xr-x 1404 root root 57344 2007-04-13 22:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 241664 2007-04-12 07:10 api -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038 2007-01-18 11:45 AUTHORS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1790 2007-03-03 10:20 changelog.Debian.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25647 2007-02-01 11:19 changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1045 2007-03-03 10:20 copyright drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2007-04-12 07:09 examples -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2162 2007-02-01 11:18 NEWS.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3197 2006-09-15 10:42 README so not only does python-kiwi contain an incorrectly named directory within /usr/share/doc, the directory appears to be redundant. corey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4+2-vserver+cpu-k7 Debian Release: 4.0 990 testing localhost 500 testing localhost --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ====================================-+-=============== python (>= 2.4) | 2.4.4-2 python-support (>= 0.2) | 0.6.3 python-gtk2 (>= 2.8.2-3.1) | 2.8.6-8 python-setuptools (>= 0.6b3-1) | 0.6c5-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
