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Bug#134260: package writes to /usr/share during build



On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:35:27PM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Am Mon, 2002-03-04 um 10.43 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:20:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > > From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>
> > > Subject: Re: Bug#134260: package writes to /usr/share during build
> > > Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 22:56:43 +0000

> > > > It is serious if it means that the autobuilders won't build it.

> > > To tell the truth, I couldn't understand but,

> > > From: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
> > > Subject: Re: Bug#134260: package writes to /usr/share during build
> > > Date: 26 Feb 2002 00:24:04 +0000

> > > > It's worth idly noting, btw, that every single active auto-builder
> > > > manager to build the tetex-bin you're bug is about btw ;-) (And many
> > > > of them use fakeroot...)

> > > does this mean autobuilders work well or don't work?

> > Sounds to me that if they use fakeroot, they won't be able to
> > autobuild it if it writes to /usr/share.

> It was my impression, that the problem was with ash and not with sh. And
> since no autobuilder admin ever complained about it and we did not
> introduce this recently ...

Correct.

As much as ash-compatibility might be nice, it is by no means a default 
in Debian, and I see no reason that this should be RC.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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