On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:43:35AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > reassign 528021 debian-policy > severity 528021 important > thanks > > Hi Norbert, > > On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > > The problem is that it seems you don't have an idea about what ls-R files > > are and how they are created. > > I wouldnt call it _the_ problem here, but it surely has been part of it :-) > > Thanks for your explaination! (And your patience too.) > > [/u/l/s/texmf = /usr/local/share/texmf] > > So there are two ways: Either we create /u/l/s/texmf and make several > > other programs working more easily and straight forward, but there > > will be /u/l/s/texmf/ls-R and thus it will not be cleaned. > > Or we do NOT create /u/l/s/texmf and some programs need extra setup, > > and we have happy piuparts. > > My sympathy is with the users. > > Besides that I'm a user too, and a user who dislikes stuff in /usr/local and > for sure not alone with that, the point is not about making piuparts (or it's > developers) happy. (IOW: Your rhetoric felt insulting.)
I think you missed who were the users above, and you are fighting rhetoric with yet more rhetoric. > The point is about following policy and policy says, that packages should not > put files in /usr/local and should not rely on them being there to work > properly. But policy allows creating directory like /usr/local/share/texmf in the postinst. > But as it seems you have a valid reason for an policy exception I'm > reassigning this bug to debian-policy, so the policy team can decide on this > matter and include these exceptions into policy. (these exceptions = to put > the file there in the first place, and then, to also remove it later.) > > For the time being I will make piuparts ignore /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R - > if the policy-team decides based on this bug that this is not acceptable, I > can easily revert it and re-run piuparts on these packages :-) It seems to me that mktexlsr could honour policy if /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R was only created when it would be not empty (i.e. the user installed files in /usr/local/share/texmf/) I gather from piuparts this is not the case. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
