severity 363362 important thanks On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:30:53PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The postinst contains the following: > if [ -d "/usr/X11R6/bin" ] && [ ! -L /usr/X11R6/bin ]; then > rmdir "/usr/X11R6/bin" || die "Could not remove /usr/X11R6/bin. Is not > yet empty. Please remove any items still in the directory. You can move > them back after the install has completed successfully." > fi > When I met this error I first checked whether it was April 1st or > something. I don't think this is acceptable to stomp on such a minor > error, especially when previous upgrades happen to let some files in > this place. Please consider moving these files to /usr/bin directly if > they don't conflict with anything, or backuping them elsewhere. This is a duplicate of bug #362885. Unless you can come up with a better upgrade path than the one that's been implemented, it's also a non-bug. > BTW, the following is also incorrect: > if ! [ -e "/usr/X11R6/bin" ]; then > ln -s /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin || die "Could not link /usr/bin to > /usr/X11R6/bin" > fi > it should be: "ln -s ../bin /usr/X11R6/bin" instead. See policy 10.5. Correct, this is a policy bug as you say. It's a severity: important one, though. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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