On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:05:18 Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Package: timidity > Version: 2.13.2-29 > Severity: serious > > Hello, > > timidity's init-script test for the existence of > /usr/share/doc/timidity-daemon violates the Debian policy 12.3.: > "Packages must not require the existence of any files in > `/usr/share/doc/' in order to function."
Ouch! > A far more clean split between timidity and timidity-daemon would be to > just move /etc/init.d/timidity and /etc/default/timidity to > timidity-daemon since they are not used otherwise in timidity itself > than for daemon-purposes. > This would also simplify the init-script code a little bit. The reason I didn't take that approach is because I couldn't easily provide a transparent upgrade path here, but since indeed the current approach violates policy I think I will go for /etc/init.d/timidity in timidity-daemon. I very much appreciate the quick feedback and will give the whole idea some more thought. thanks, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
