According to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#fr115

I can do this:

    # cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/75no-docs
    path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*
    [...]

...and packages have to deal with it.

With that config in place, libglade2-dev can't be installed:

    # apt-get install libglade2-dev
    Reading package lists...
    Building dependency tree...
    Reading state information...
    Suggested packages:
      glade glade-gnome
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      libglade2-dev
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B/120 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 536 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
    E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (2: No such file or directory)
    Selecting previously unselected package libglade2-dev:amd64.
    (Reading database ... 47531 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../libglade2-dev_1%3a2.6.4-2_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking libglade2-dev:amd64 (1:2.6.4-2) ...
    Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
    Setting up libglade2-dev:amd64 (1:2.6.4-2) ...
    ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html’: No such file or directory
    dpkg: error processing package libglade2-dev:amd64 (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     libglade2-dev:amd64
    Error, do this: mount -t proc proc /proc
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I believe this is a policy violation.
Please either create the symlink at build time (using debian/<package>.links),
or change the postinst to cope with an absent /usr/share/doc/.

Dear submitter,

as the package libglade2 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1110865

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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