Bug#329929: gucharmap: postinst blows away system immodules configuration

[Roger Leigh]

Package: gucharmap
Version: 1:1.4.3-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Replaces conffile from another package, wiping any customisation

The postinst contains this line:

  # Hopefully GTK+ upstream will do something about this sillyness
  gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

This is rather rude.  Wiping out a conffile from another package is
not nice.

Why is gucharmap doing this?  It's no different from any other GTK+
application WRT immodules, and certainly has no business doing this.


Regards,
Roger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gucharmap depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.10.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.10.1-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.10.1-1       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.10.1-5       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.8.0-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.10.2-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.10.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.10.1-5       The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.6.10-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtk2.0-bin             2.6.10-1       The programs for the GTK+ graphica
ii  libgucharmap4             1:1.4.3-2      Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.12.2-3     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.10.0-2       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.22-1       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-10      A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-4      compression library - runtime

gucharmap recommends no packages.

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