Package: acct
Version: 6.4~pre1-8
Severity: serious
Hello,
acct 6.4~pre1-8 started to ship
/usr/share/info/dir.gz
which is very likely not intentional.
First of all, this file is usually managed by install-info and thus gets
overwritten regularly which causes acct's package checksums to fail.
Second, shipping this file triggers install-info to switch from plain
to a compressed Info directory format, which breaks info viewers that
cannot handle compressed dir files, like Emacs (see #543564).
Third, (re)installing or upgrading acct always corrupts the Info
directory this way.
Fourth, because of this file and a similar bug, acct currently conflicts
with opencubicplayer (#537835):
Preparing to replace acct 6.4~pre1-7+b1 (using .../acct_6.4~pre1-8_i386.deb) ...
Stopping process accounting: Turning off process accounting.
acct.
Unpacking replacement acct ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acct_6.4~pre1-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/dir.gz', which is also in package opencubicplayer
Starting process accounting: Turning on process accounting, file set to '/var/log/account/pacct'.
acct.
Since this is the second bug of this kind i'm writing within quite a
short time: Maybe you find some hints why packages start shipping
/usr/share/info/dir.gz while resolving this issue - if you do so, please
reassign this bug or file another bug report against the causative
package.
Thanks for your work & regards
Mario
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File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
-- Peter Collinson, "The Unix File System"
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