Package: vim-runtime Version: 1:7.0-158+1 Hello,
the helpztags call in (at least) vim-runtime and vim-latexsuite postinst modifies (overwrites) at least /usr/share/vim/addons/doc/tags which is also shipped within the vim-runtime package. I'm not sure if there are other tags files to which applies the same. This modification leads to md5sum (debsums(1)) differences between the file shipped in the package and the file in the filesystem and this, in turn, leads to confusion at least :) Afaics the Debian policy does not explicitely forbid the modification of files shipped within a package, but IMHO it's not a good approach to do so. Since the file is autogenerated anyways, is it really needed to ship it within the package as well? Wouldn't it be enough to just autogenerate it and remove it on <prerm> `remove'? I'm not absolutely sure if this is the correct position in the maintainer scripts, but it would at least be soon enough to prevent the package manager from stumbling over non-empty directories on package removal. Thanks for your work & regards Mario -- Whenever you design a better fool-proof software, the genetic pool will always design a better fool.
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