On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:47:03 -0000, "Lucian Adrian Grijincu"
<lucian.griji...@gmail.com> said:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:21 PM, era <era+launchpad....@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Anyway, could you please confirm that the file does exist on your 
> > system now.
> 
> Yep, sorry I forgot about this bug, the file was created sometime 
> later.
> The file /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb was not created (not empty as you
> supposed).
> 
> I'll remove the file and try to reinstall to see if I can replicate,
> and maybe fix the installer scripts if necessary.

Actually the postinst runs update-dlocatedb & which only renames the
file to the official name when it's finished generating it.  I think
it's safe to say this is by design, although one could argue about how
to make it fail in a more transparent way if dlocate is run before the
file exists.

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