On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:26:37PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 11:14 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > 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 > > 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. > For sure I have a better upgrade path: > - keep a compatibility symbolic link in /usr/X11R6/bin/X, and ditto the > few other ones that can cause breakage upon upgrade ; > - hunt down packages using them ; > - release etch with those links ; > - entirely remove /usr/X11R6/bin after the release. > There are many broken third-party applications that install stuff > in /usr/X11R6 instead of /usr/local. Until now, such cases have been > handled by overwriting them upon upgrades, not by entirely failing to > upgrade. The "upgrade path" (which is actually a non-upgrade path) will > break on many systems without any justification. Issues this doesn't address: - /usr/X11R6/bin is not in the path in Debian's /etc/profile, so any partial upgrades or not-yet-transitioned packages will leave some users (and their scripts) unable to find some of their programs - just as broken third-party applications may install stuff in /usr/X11R6 instead of /usr/local, broken third-party applications may hard-code paths to programs they call instead of using the system path So you're trading one sort of brokenness for another. I have a strong preference for keeping such brokenness self-contained; failing to upgrade when the directory is non-empty is one way to achieve this. Ultimately, it's the XSF's decision which way they want to do it, though, not mine. -- 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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