Re: Bug#939770: wireshark: Wrong path in pre-install notification

Control: tags -1 confirmed patch
Control: found -1 1.2.9-2

Dear English Localization Team,

Please review the attached patch for fixing the issue reported below.

The current template can be found here:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wireshark/blob/debian/master/debian/templates

Thank you,
Balint

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 6:36 PM Nils Dagsson Moskopp
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Package: wireshark
> Version: 2.6.7-1~deb9u1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> in the pre-install notification about installing dumpcamp so that
> non-root users can capture packets it is displayed that users can
> read about that feature in the file at the following path:
>
> /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian
>
> A file does not actually exist at the path.
> After installation, it does also not exist.
> However, the following path holds the file:
>
> /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian.gz
>
> I suggest to change path in the question and make it clear that the
> file will only exist after the package is installed – even though a
> text mentioning it might be shown before installation is completed.

-- 
Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer

From 38256c713614c857c43692ab153c369b721ac42b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balint Reczey <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 22:30:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] debian/templates: Fix README.Debian's path and not that it
 needs to be installed

Change-Id: I7ebc987a8956122e1bb283d33ec3c989c5d83330
Closes: #939770
---
 debian/templates | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/templates b/debian/templates
index dc47130770..66fb399ae2 100644
--- a/debian/templates
+++ b/debian/templates
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ _Description: Should non-superusers be able to capture packets?
  less of the code will run with elevated privileges.
  .
  For more detailed information please see
- /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian.
+ /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian.gz after the package
+ installation is finished.
  .
  Enabling this feature may be a security risk, so it is disabled by
  default. If in doubt, it is suggested to leave it disabled.
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2.17.1