Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

[Darren Salt <listspam@moreofthesa.me.uk>]

I demand that Andreas Beckmann may or may not have written...

[snip]
> xine-ui_0.99.7-1
>   /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop

> These seem to be some state/registry/... files that are updated during
> postinst.

That and gxine.desktop (at least) are updated then because the list of
supported MIME types may vary depending on which xine-lib packages are
installed.

> What should we do with these? Unfortunately I didn't find a policy
> reference that forbids this ...

If you have better ideas concerning these, I'm listening...

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