On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:51:58AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Steve Langasek [Sun, Apr 16 2006, 04:58:25PM]:
> > If you ask me, I think it's better to keep the vast majority of irritating > > bugs confined to unstable, and only make users of stable deal with the > > single issue of moving their files out of /usr/X11R6/bin; which is why I > > asked David to implement this transition when it became clear that things > > were breaking because of the move to /usr/bin. > I agree with most of your arguments, especially because our default bash > PATH is still pointing to /usr/X11R6/bin, but there is one thing which I > actually reported... if there is cruft remaining in the directory, the > whole upgrade should _not_ break. > Implementing an unsafe single "rmdir" and hope that it won't > fail is IMO not a proper solution. If the directory must be moved out > of the way, then it should be renamed. Or the old contents need to be > moved to the new location, possible correcting symlinks Er, any number of these files may belong to other Debian packages that we don't conflict with (because we didn't know about them). Why would it be ok for a package to mangle files belonging to other packages in this fashion? If you move the files, dpkg may be unable to find them at package uninstallation, resulting in orphaned files on the filesystem; or there may be another binary of the same name installed in /usr/bin, with the result that uninstalling one package nukes files belonging to another. (Yes, it's a policy violation for two packages to provide binaries of the same name without a conflict, but policy violations happen -- and not all of these packages are necessarily from a Debian repository...) Forcing the user to deal with the conflict is the only safe way of handling files left in /usr/X11R6/bin. It should probably be turned into a debconf note later on, but for the time being I think the current behavior is as good as it's going to get. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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