On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > "general" is not the best package to report this to, but since there's > no "buildd" package, and I don't want it to be completely forgotten, > I'll report it here. I'm quoting from a bugreport where we came across > this, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388399;msg=123:
Good that it's not a bug against a buildd package, since there it should be tagged 'wontfix'. > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > > > > However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. > > > Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time > > > - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause > > > trouble, since they are not updated or subject to dpkg conffile > > > questions when the package changes configuration options. It might be a > > > good thing to require such tools to have a commandline switch or obey a > > > commandline variable that prevents this. Alternatively, HOME could be > > > set to the temporary build directory, so that everything happens there. Even more alternatively, these tools should not fail horribly when writing to directories in $HOME seems impossible for some reason. That falls under 'standard good programming practices'. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
