Hi!

On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 18:30:23 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:08:13PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Maybe it's related to localepurge's new feature to use dpkg's
> > path-exclude and path-include directives or the switch to it from the
> > old localepurge technic:
> > 
> > # egrep 'locale[^a-z]*$|locale/de' /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/50localepurge
> > path-exclude=/usr/share/locale/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de_CH/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de_CH.UTF-8/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de_DE/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de_DE@euro/*
> > path-include=/usr/share/locale/de_DE.UTF-8/*
> > #
> 
> Then that sounds like a dpkg bug to me, to be honest.

It seems suspicious indeed, although there's functional tests for
this, in any case I've setup the environment to test this and I'm
checking it right now.

> Sure, excluding the directories ought to mean they aren't created, but
> it shouldn't cause packages that merely ship files in those directories
> to fail to unpack.  Reassigning.

Those paths should have gotten reincluded by the code, given the above
patterns.

thanks,
guillem


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