Bug#332264: tex-common: permission-handling of ls-R files is one-way

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: tex-common
Version: 0.8
Severity: normal

When invoking dpkg-reconfigure tex-common, it is possible to change
permissions of ls-R files from anything (e.g. 644) to 664 by selecting
the corresponding directory.  However, when *deselecting* a directory,
the permissions are not changed to 644, they are not touched at all.

Furthermore, LOCALTEXMF's ls-R file is only managed if it resides in
/var/lib/texmf.  Since there was no such symlink in older versions, we
should either provide a transition (is fiddling with /usr/local allowed
in maintainer scripts?), or at least document it.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.30.13  Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           1.17       Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/userperm: false
  tex-common/groupperm: true
  tex-common/groupname: users
* tex-common/managedlsr: cache, local, var
  tex-common/cnf_name:

-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer