severity 392515 important thanks On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:35:22AM +0200, Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) wrote: > Package: prc-tools-utils > Version: 2.3-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 9.1.2
> The preinst script does the following under certain circumstances: > mv /usr/share/prc-tools /usr/local/share/palmdev > As mandated by the FHS, packages must not place any files in > `/usr/local', either by putting them in the file system archive to be > unpacked by `dpkg' or by manipulating them in their maintainer scripts. The "certain circumstances" in question are if the /usr/share/prc-tools directory exists, but did not come from the Debian package (either the sarge or etch version). Since this would itself appear to almost certainly be an FHS violation, I don't see any reason to treat this as RC. There is a chance, of course, that someone may have a /usr/share/prc-tools directory that's created by some other package not in the Debian archive. So I agree that the handling of this case is buggy, and it would be far better to have a preinst that aborts than one that shuffles files around without warning. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
