Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Moreover, we must make sure that we never run mktexlsr without arguments > > in maintainer scripts - otherwise /u/l/s/texmf/ls-R will be created. > > I think that's your duty as maintainers, to make sure the software behaves > like all the rest, ie fo

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Frank, Norbert, I do appreciate your time spent on this! On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > However, we should try to remember whether there's a reason for this > construction, other than that we arranged the files in analogy to > /usr/share/texmf{,-texlive}? I _guess_ that's th

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > >> +# remove the symlink in TEXMFLOCAL, ignoring failures if /usr/local is > >> ro rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/dev/null || true > > > > you must neither delete nor create files in /usr/local (see policy 9.1.2 :) Ok, then we just leave it ther

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Küster
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote: >> We have simply forgotten to add the line in postrm. Here's a patch: > > Heh. (+np, happens.) > >> +# remove the symlink in TEXMFLOCAL, ignoring failures if /usr/local is >> ro rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Frank Küster wrote: > We have simply forgotten to add the line in postrm. Here's a patch: Heh. (+np, happens.) > +# remove the symlink in TEXMFLOCAL, ignoring failures if /usr/local is > ro rm -f /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R 2>/dev/null || true you must neither

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Küster
Holger Levsen wrote: > This doesnt happen as you could have seen in the attached log. We have simply forgotten to add the line in postrm. Here's a patch: --- postrm.in (revision 3893) +++ postrm.in (working copy) @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ # purge texmf.cnf which is generated by update-texmf u

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Frank Küster
Holger Levsen wrote: >> That is a _should_ requirement and reading the start of the policy you >> could see that > > ... thats right, but... > >> So please refrain from playing with severities without checking the >> details. > > I'm setting the severity based on the release goals for squeeze, se

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
reopen 528021 reassign 528021 tex-common sorry On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > Well, your bug was anyway for the wrong package, since /u/l/s/texmf is > created by tex-common, not by texlive-*. ok. > ANd in tex-common see #475077. thanks. (but that bug is about creating that

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Norbert, On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, prein...@logic.at wrote: > > 1m32.5s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > > /usr/local/share/texmf not owned > > Aehm, wrong. That is not a file under dpkg control. There is a > different bug report about that we have to create /u

Bug#528021: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8)

2009-05-10 Thread preining
severity 528021 wishlist retitle 528021 please purge /usr/local/share/texmf if empty thanks On Sun, 10 May 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package left unowned files on the > system after purge, which is a violation of policy 6.8: > > http://www.debian.or