Bug#354008: Wrong mode (3755) in debconf template

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 01.03.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

Hi,

> > retitle 354008 debian/templates should be generated from a
> > templates.in file to automatically get the right octal mode for
> > the cache directories
> >
The bug description speaks explicitely about generating the templates
file bcause of the file permissions of some dirs.

> Thanks.  In fact I still think that it's more elegant this way, but
> on the other hand we have more important things to do.  Let's just
> keep it like it is (and this bug open) until the next time when
> something can/should be synchronized between templates and a
> maintainer script.
> 
... meanwhile the tex-common templates stabilized (AFAICT), got
smaller and the text in question does not exist any more.

I suggest to close that bug now. Objections? Do you still insist on
generating that file?

H.
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