Bug#564457: unowned files in /usr/local after purge (policy 6.8)

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

severity 564457 normal
thanks

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:38:46PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Package: texlive-base
> Version: 2009-7
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on the 
> system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8:
> [...]
> 0m22.1s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:
>   /usr/local/share/texmf	 not owned
>   /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R	 not owned
> 
> As putting files into /usr/local is also a violation of 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.1.2 I'm setting 
> the severity to serious.

This file is generated by mktexlsr, it is not part of the package
itself.  So lowering the severity to normal.

texlive could be made to delete this file during purge.  The other
alternative, removing /usr/local/share/texmf from either the default
search paths or from the ls-R building path (or both) would
potentially confuse lots of users - not a good thing.

   Julian