[xml/sgml-pkgs] Processed: Re: Bug#617315: xml-core: prerm/postinst scripts modify /usr/local in violation of debian policy

[Joey Hess]

I don't appreciate that this bug was raised in severity and reassigned
to debhelper with --

a) No analysis to indicate that debhelper is at fault.
b) No explaination of how debhelper's /usr/local code, which is a direct
   copy from debian policy, could possibly fail on a read-only /usr/local.
d) Not even an error message to go on, so no clear indication that there
   is a policy violation at all. In particular, policy does not say that
   packages cannot fail to install when /usr/local is on a NFS mount
   that cannot be accessed due to some local configuration or network
   problem.

-- 
see shy jo, not your personal debugging service
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