Bug#505105: installs files under /debian/install/shared/

[David Paleino]

Package: gail
Severity: serious
Version: 1.22.3-1

Hello,
I've just run an upgrade from experimental, and I had my system cluttered up
with /debian/. This is a serious bug (IMHO), because it makes Debian no more
FHS-compliant.

# dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail-dev_2.14.4-2_i386.deb
[..]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/
[..]
# dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail-common_2.14.4-2_i386.deb
[..]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/
[..]
# dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libgail18_2.14.4-2_i386.deb
[..]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-11-07 03:03 ./debian/install/shared/
[..]
#

This could also lead to security issues, i.e. suppose I had a /debian/
directory with that structure, and the apt-get'ed .deb overwrote something...

Kindly,
David


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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