Re: Bug#75868: man-db: Does man-db responsible for /var/cache/man? (fwd)

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:19:35AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > The following is probably a dpkg or policy matter that I do not understand. 
> > Can you explain it to me?
> > 
> > [10:12:54 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /var/cache/man
> > dpkg: /var/cache/man not found.
> 
> See the relevant bits from /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst:
> 
> catdir="/var/cache/man"
> 
> if      [ -d $catdir ]
> then    echo "  Removing catpages as well as $catdir hierarchy."
>         rm -rf $catdir 2>/dev/null || true
> fi
> 
> install -d -g root -m 02755 -o man $catdir
> 
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > If man-db is responsible for /var/cache/man then dpkg should know about it.
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Actually, he means that it is not necessary for dpkg to know about a
> directory that a package is responsible for -- the package can create it and
> remove it in its p* scripts. As man-db does in this case.
> 


Am I right that dpkg would know about this dir if it were installed during the 
build of the package, say in debian/rules?

I believe that it is preferable that every system dir would be known to dpkg, 
which is why I want to issue a wish bug against man-db so that the creation of 
this dir would be made in debian/rules. What do you think?


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