tag 324111 wontfix thanks On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:36:43AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > when checking the md5sums of aspell-en, there are always the following > mismatches between package and filesystem: [snip] > You should not change files on-the-fly that you did put under package > management control (i.e. put them into the package). > If you need some defaults for these files, create them in the postinst > script. For example, you could ship them im some other directory > (like /usr/share/.../defaults) and (conditionally) copy them while > postinst. > No need to mention: make sure you carefully remove them while the > package removal phase, too :)
This was a deliberate decision by myself and Agustin. I can't see any point in making sure files packaged in /var directories don't change, since files in /var are of course expected to change. Also, not including these files in the .deb packages significantly complicates the packaging. I really don't want to change to manangement of the files in maintainer scripts without a very good reason to do so. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
