[Russ Allbery] > Figuring out a better solution for why the files in /var/lib/ispell > and /var/lib/aspell are excluded from the md5sums generation because > they change after installation is probably needed if we're going to > remove creation of those files from control of the packager.
It seems odd to ship files that are expected to change, but aren't conffiles. What happens if you either reinstall or upgrade the deb in question? I mean, the local changes get overwritten - how is that not a bad thing? I've always thought if you have data shipped by a package that will be changed after the fact, it should be shipped in /usr/lib or /usr/share and then copied into /var/lib at install time, or as needed. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100305200701.gk18...@p12n.org