Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.5.11 Severity: wishlist
From aspell-autobuildhash(8): | Dictionaries-common scripts will call internally this script and | create a single hash file at /var/lib/ispell/$lang.rws, or hash files | at /var/lib/ispell/$subdict.rws. You must set a symlink to that files | from /usr/lib/aspell/$lang.rws or /usr/lib/aspell/$subdict.rws as | appropriate. You are also suggested to create empty files at | /var/lib/aspell/$lang.rws or for all of the | /var/lib/aspell/$subdict.rws in the install target of your package | build process. This empty file will be overwritten when the real hash | is created, but will make the hash be removed at package removal | without any magic being done in the postrm and will also help to keep | track about which package owns that file. The man page recommends shipping of an (empty) file with the package, which is then overwritten/regenerated when the real hash is created, which means during the maintainers scripts work-time of that very package. This leads to hashsums mismatches for these regenerated files -- this is the hashsum of the empty file when the package is built versus the hashsum of the already regenerated file by preinst or postinst. These mismatches could also be easily seen by debsums(1). It would be better if all (re)generations and deletions of these files is done via maintainer scripts, though it is still not quite clear to me whether aspell-autobuildhash would work reliably then. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
