Re: Recent Woody upgrade, TeTeX, XFree86, and Mozilla
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:44:02AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > So, which of the various tet-tex packages do I bug report?
>
> I'm not sure. Try grepping for mktexlsr or texhash in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/t*.p*
Ahh, that's the ticket...
grep "/usr/local" /var/lib/dpkg/info/t*.p*
only shows tetex-base, but:
grep "texhash" /var/lib/dpkg/info/t*.p*
shows tetex-base and tetex-extra, accounting for the multiple times I saw
this message.
It seems that texhash is actually the culprit, as tetex-base.postinst only
creates directories in /usr/local and then calls texhash. tetex-extra only
calles texhash, and does so in both postinst and postrm scripts.
>
> > Does lintian check this sort of violation? (I could then figure it out
> > from my .deb cache)
>
> I don't think it does. (It would seem hard to check for such a thing, too)
>
Well, I can think of a way to check, but it would have to be explicit,
like the use of cp/rm/mv where the target is /usr/local/*. That wouldn't
work in this case, as texhash is the one actually calling this path.
> > Does apt-get log its activity?
>
> Not automatically.
Thought so...
>
> > > > > > Is there any reason that we can't include progeny's version of Mozilla in
> > > > > > Debian Woody until such time as our maintainer delivers his release.
> > > > > ~~~~~ sid/unstable
> > > > >
> > > > > FWIW I agree... so what if the package is not tiptop, it's good enough for
> > > > > unstable.
> > > >
> > > > Well, I don't know where you get the "not tiptop" from. The Progeny
> > > > release has a working psm and the release in Debian doesn't. Which one is
> > > > not "tiptop"?
> > >
> > > It's a 9 MB package that takes over 26 MB of disk space to install, surely
> > > that's not the best way to package it.
> >
> > Let me put it this way. Currently the unstable release of Mozilla is 0 MB,
> > the available replacement for this package is 26 MB and produces actual
> > functionality that the 0 MB package doesn't. Which would you rather have.
> >
> > Or yet another way: The stable version is 9 MB but can't communicate with
> > my bank, but the 26 MB version can. Is 15 MB such a large price to pay?
>
> You do understand that I agree with you? :) My comment was about not being
> tiptop, I said it's fine for unstable...
Well, I sort of understood that ;-)
It just wasn't clear what you thought wrong with the Progeny package...
Luck,
Dwarf
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