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# `maintainer-script-does-not-check-for-existence-of-installdocs`

The maintainer script calls the `install-docs` command without checking that it exists, but the `doc-base` package, which provides the command, is not an `essential` package and may not be available.

For example, you can use the following code in your maintainer script:

    if which install-docs > /dev/null; then
         install-docs -i /usr/share/doc-base/<your-package>
    fi

Severity: | `error`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag