Sean Finney wrote: > hi frank, > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> we just received a bug report that is caused by a buggy prerm script >> in the package in sarge (it fails because it doesn't handle read-only >> /usr/local properly). Is there any way to fix this, except documenting >> it in the release notes? > > assuming that this is only a problem with removals (and not upgrades too, > in which case the problem is quite a bit more complicated),
No, it's there also during an upgrade - we didn't special-case the upgrade (which is by itself not a bug in this case). It does occurr only under rather special cirumstances, and this is why nobody didn't report this before; but it's not special enough that we could claim we didn't need to know - it's even in the Policy (/user/local may be mounted ro). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer