[debhelper-devel] Bug#830309: freetype FTBFS: install: cannot change permissions of 'debian/libfreetype6-dev/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6-dev': No such file or directory

[Sven Joachim]

On 2016-07-09 09:40 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:

> Sven Joachim:
>> On 2016-07-08 09:53 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> 
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Thanks, I have applied it to master and it will be part of the next
>>> debhelper release. :)
>> 
>> Unfortunately my patch breaks dh_installdocs in compat 11 mode, as I
>> have just discovered. :-/  Will look into it, but I'm not too familiar
>> with debhelper yet, and my perl skills are rusty.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>        Sven
>> 
>
> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> I will continue with your existing patch for now as it fixes packages
> and nothing is using compat 11.

Attached is a patch which fixes both the original problem and the
regression.  It seems to me that dh_installdocs really needs a testsuite
for all the possible cases though.

Cheers,
       Sven

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