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:
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
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
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org 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
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org 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
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
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org 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
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 there because
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 the
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 follow
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