severity 615556 important quit Hi,
Lorenzo wrote: > Unpacking dash (from .../dash_0.5.5.1-7.4em1_i386.deb) ... > Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash' > ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz.tmp': No such file or > directory [...] > The error is due to the fact that the chroot where the package is being > installed doesn't contain /usr/share/man (it is a EmDebian chroot). I don't believe policy requires the unmodified maintainer scripts to work in such a hostile environment (the /usr/share/man/man1 directory is part of a number of essential packages), though I could easily be wrong. But putting that aside, how are packages supposed to deal with this? Is it only /usr/share/man that might be stripped away or are there other directories to worry about? If a directory is missing, is it safe to assume nothing should be installed there, or should some directories be silently created when needed? Does emdebian have a way to provide emdebian-specific changes to maintainer scripts? Are stock packages supposed to work in an emdebian environment? It all seems murky. Hints welcome. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
