Hi,
Frank, Norbert, I do appreciate your time spent on this!
On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
> However, we should try to remember whether there's a reason for this
> construction, other than that we arranged the files in analogy to
> /usr/share/texmf{,-texlive}?
I _guess_ that's the cause for the curent problem.
> Moreover, we must make sure that we never run mktexlsr without arguments
> in maintainer scripts - otherwise /u/l/s/texmf/ls-R will be created.
I think that's your duty as maintainers, to make sure the software behaves
like all the rest, ie follow FHS and in this case, not requiere stuff
in /usr/local to work.
> > I would just try to delete the dir, and if it fails, so be it.
> The file will always exist, since we create it in our postinst currently...
I don't understand (as you see) why you don't do this.
On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> PS: There is a solution: Not creating /u/l/s/texmf in tex-common's
> postinst. But that is definitely worse for user's then a blind application
> of a release goal that is not part of policy.
Why should the user _want_ a file in /usr/local???
regards,
Holger
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