Bug#292752: marked as done (tetex-base: Ships subdirectories of /usr/local in .deb, against Policy)
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From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: tetex-base: Ships subdirectories of /usr/local in .deb, against Policy
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Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2c-4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.2
Hello,
I'm sorry to have to file this bug :-( but I think that shipping
directories under /usr/local in the tetex-base .deb is a Policy violation;
see section 9.1.2, fourth paragraph.
The rationale is that if I try to install the package on a computer where
/usr/local is mounted read-only (e.g. as an NFS share), the installation
will fail. (In my case at least, this is more than just a theoretical
worry.) Hence all creation of /usr/local subdirectories must be done in
postinst scripts, and must not cause the installation to fail if the
directory cannot be created.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.26 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii texinfo 4.7-2.2 Documentation system for on-line i
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information excluded
regards,
--
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University
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Source: tetex-base
Source-Version: 2.0.2c-5
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tetex-base, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.diff.gz
tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.dsc
to pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.dsc
tetex-base_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-base_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
tetex-doc_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-doc_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
tetex-extra_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-base/tetex-extra_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 292752@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tetex-base package)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:03:00 +0100
Source: tetex-base
Binary: tetex-extra tetex-doc tetex-base
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.0.2c-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description:
tetex-base - Basic library files of teTeX
tetex-doc - The documentation component of the Debian teTeX packages
tetex-extra - Additional library files of teTeX
Closes: 292752
Changes:
tetex-base (2.0.2c-5) unstable; urgency=high
.
* RC bug fix: Don't ship subdirectories of /usr/local in the deb,
instead create them in postinst, thanks to Kevin B. McCarty"
<kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> (closes: #292752) [frank]
Files:
6a5aa1ecc8f3d814d312f0eff45cbef8 799 tex optional tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.dsc
6520ce0ef1addf864f9d5f358974d3d6 508670 tex optional tetex-base_2.0.2c-5.diff.gz
a7d93cbc99402ffe52d18d3c8a4a437d 14360844 tex optional tetex-base_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
08ad4b1dad0321c994e025044e1921ea 10468380 tex optional tetex-extra_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
d92fe7d9e0c0b45521f665532e83a3b6 28089530 doc optional tetex-doc_2.0.2c-5_all.deb
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