Package: gail Severity: serious Version: 1.22.3-1 Hello, I've just run an upgrade from experimental, and I had my system cluttered up with /debian/. This is a serious bug (IMHO), because it makes Debian no more FHS-compliant.
# dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail-dev_2.14.4-2_i386.deb [..] drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/ [..] # dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail-common_2.14.4-2_i386.deb [..] drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/ [..] # dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail18_2.14.4-2_i386.deb [..] drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/ [..] # This could also lead to security issues, i.e. suppose I had a /debian/ directory with that structure, and the apt-get'ed .deb overwrote something... Kindly, David -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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