severity 537835 serious
thanks

Am 21.07.2009 um 11:17 schrieb Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe:

> Package: opencubicplayer
> Version: 1:0.1.17-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> opencubicplayer 1:0.1.17-1 started to ship
>       /usr/share/info/dir.gz
>       /usr/share/info/dir.old.gz
> which is very likely not intentional.
>
> First of all, these files are usually managed by install-info and thus
> get overwritten regularly which causes opencubicplayer's package
> checksums to fail.
> Second, shipping these files triggers install-info to switch from plain
> to a compressed Info directory format.

Which breaks info viewers that cannot handle compressed dir files, like
Emacs (see #543564).

> Third, (re)installing or upgrading opencubicplayer always corrupts the
> Info directory this way.

I think this warrants RC severity.

Cheers,
       Sven



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