Bug 1261341

Summary: [meld] duplicate doc directories
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component: meldAssignee: Dominic Hopf <dmaphy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: christoph.wickert, dmaphy, fedora, gilboad
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Fixed In Version: meld-3.16.4-4.fc25 meld-3.17.1-4.fc26 meld-3.16.4-3.fc24 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Joachim Frieben 2015-09-09 08:01:47 UTC
Description of problem:
In /usr/share/doc/ two directories - meld/ and meld-3.14.0/ - with identical content are present.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
meld-3.14.0-1.fc23

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run 'ls -l /usr/share/doc/meld*'.

Actual results:
/usr/share/doc/meld:
total 68
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18092 Apr 11 00:03 COPYING
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 46818 Jul 22 23:13 NEWS

/usr/share/doc/meld-3.14.0:
total 68
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18092 Apr 11 00:03 COPYING
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 46818 Jul 22 23:13 NEWS

Expected results:
/usr/share/doc/meld:
total 68
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18092 Apr 11 00:03 COPYING
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 46818 Jul 22 23:13 NEWS

Additional info:
Directory meld-3.14.0/ needs to be removed.

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2015-11-04 16:45:06 UTC
Same issue for meld-3.15.0-1.fc24 of the Fedora development tree.

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2016-05-29 17:41:54 UTC
Same issue for meld-3.16.0-1.fc25 of the Fedora development (rawhide) tree.

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2016-07-09 05:56:40 UTC
This issue now affects all of Fedora 23, 24, and 25 (rawhide).

Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:14:13 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2016-07-31 16:20:02 UTC
Issue also affects the latest meld-3.16.2-1.fc25.

Comment 6 Joachim Frieben 2016-10-01 08:16:58 UTC
Issue is still present for meld-3.16.3-1.fc25. Moreover, the duplicate directory /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.3 is -not- even owned by the package whereas its content is. Finally, the duplicate directory /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.2 is -not- removed when upgrading to meld-3.16.3-1.fc25 whereas its content is:

$ more meld.txt 
$ ls -lR /usr/share/doc/meld*
/usr/share/doc/meld:
total 76
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18092 Sep  9 23:48 COPYING
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 55296 Sep 25 23:15 NEWS

/usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.2:
total 0

/usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.3:
total 76
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18092 Sep  9 23:48 COPYING
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 55296 Sep 25 23:15 NEWS

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/meld*
meld-3.16.3-1.fc25.noarch
file /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.2 is not owned by any package
file /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.3 is not owned by any package

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/meld*/*
meld-3.16.3-1.fc25.noarch
meld-3.16.3-1.fc25.noarch
meld-3.16.3-1.fc25.noarch
meld-3.16.3-1.fc25.noarch

Comment 7 Dominic Hopf 2016-12-19 13:02:29 UTC
This is now fixed in Fedora Rawhide with the Meld Update to 3.17.0-2 there. Future updates will not have this issue anymore.

Comment 8 Joachim Frieben 2017-01-24 16:26:03 UTC
The last (rawhide) build contains

    /usr/share/doc/meld-3.17.0/COPYING
    /usr/share/doc/meld-3.17.0/NEWS

when it should be

    /usr/share/doc/meld/COPYING
    /usr/share/doc/meld/NEWS

in agreement with Fedora packaging standards.

Moreover, the Fedora 25 package is still affected. Given the triviality of this packaging mistake, pushing a fixed build for Fedora 25 does not seem overly excessive, thanks.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2017-03-19 15:37:15 UTC
meld-3.16.4-3.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-e736c47270

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2017-03-19 15:37:23 UTC
meld-3.17.1-2.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-10911b41f5

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2017-03-19 15:37:33 UTC
meld-3.16.4-2.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f3a7aa06e3

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2017-03-20 06:49:12 UTC
meld-3.16.4-4.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-e736c47270

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2017-03-20 06:49:34 UTC
meld-3.16.4-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f3a7aa06e3

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2017-03-21 03:21:35 UTC
meld-3.16.4-4.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2017-03-21 14:23:51 UTC
meld-3.17.1-4.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-10911b41f5

Comment 16 Christian Stadelmann 2017-03-22 11:54:31 UTC
Not fixed with meld 3.16.4 either.

meld still provides a /usr/share/doc/meld and a /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.4 folder, and it doesn't even own the latter. See comment #8 for details.

Comment 17 Joachim Frieben 2017-03-22 14:56:24 UTC
(In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #16)
Installing (stable) meld-3.16.4.4.fc25 on a new system behaves correctly. I think you can hardly expect more: it does not account for "forgotten" directories or files which were installed but not owned by some broken precursor package. Thus, either you remove the empty directory /usr/share/doc/meld-3.x.y by hand or you just leave it as it is.

Comment 18 Christian Stadelmann 2017-03-22 22:07:06 UTC
(In reply to Joachim Frieben from comment #17)
> (In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #16)
> Installing (stable) meld-3.16.4.4.fc25 on a new system behaves correctly. I
> think you can hardly expect more: it does not account for "forgotten"
> directories or files which were installed but not owned by some broken
> precursor package. Thus, either you remove the empty directory
> /usr/share/doc/meld-3.x.y by hand or you just leave it as it is.

Understood and fix confirmed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. uninstall meld
2. no /usr/share/doc/meld* directories are left
3. install meld
4. only /usr/share/doc/meld is present, but /usr/share/doc/meld-3.16.4/ is not.

Thank you!

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2017-04-15 18:26:51 UTC
meld-3.17.1-4.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2017-04-16 19:19:32 UTC
meld-3.16.4-3.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.