Pkg xen devel - Feb 2018 - Bug#890488: xen-utils-common is missing README.pti, README.comet

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u4.1

A recent changelog entry claims:
  * Ship README.pti and README.comet from the upstream XSA-254
    advisory in /usr/share/doc/xen-utils/common/.

However, I cannot find these files anywhere on my system after upgrade.
(The changelog entry contains a likely typo, xen-utils/common instead of
xen-utils-common, but I looked for the files elsewhere as well.)

In the source package, which does contain these files, I see that
debian/rules.real builds the architecture-independent package xen-utils-common
in an architecture-dependent manner; in particular, dh_installdocs is only
invoked on a subset of all architectures. Maybe this needs to be reconsidered?

> However, I cannot find these files anywhere on my system after
> upgrade.  (The changelog entry contains a likely typo,
> xen-utils/common instead of xen-utils-common, but I looked for the
> files elsewhere as well.)
This is a bit odd.

On my own system:

  $ dpkg --contents
../xen-utils-common_4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u4_all.deb |grep
README.comet
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      2896 2018-02-07 16:56
./usr/share/doc/xen-utils-common/README.comet

But the file being distributed by Debian is different.
> in particular, dh_installdocs is only
> invoked on a subset of all architectures
This was a mistake.  I wasn't thinking clearly.

I think the file being distributed by Debian must have been built on
ARM.

Anyway, thanks for the report and I think you have indeed pointed to
the correct fix.

Ian.

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