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Bug#996540: Post install fails when run as non-root user and does not respect PKG_ROOT



Quoting Hilmar Preuße (2022-01-14 23:57:32)
> > The post install is failing when dpkg is configured with a root and run as
> > an unprivileged user. This is an issue partly with packaging and partly
> > with the upstream package (I think). The upstream issue can be remedied
> > with a patch in the packaging.
> > 
> Did you test of texinfo 6.8 eventually solves the issue?
> 
> Further I don't understand the use case: under which situations will a
> configuration script will be run as non-privileged user?

None. Glenn also filed #996435, #996438 and #996542 and my answer to the latter
also holds for this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996542#25

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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