Bug#638030: libgtk2.0-bin: /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache violates FHS chapter 4

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Tue Aug 16 18:22:48 UTC 2011


Package: libgtk2.0-bin
Version: 2.24.5-4
Version: 2.20.1-2
Severity: serious

/usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache is not part of any package, but
according to gtk-update-icon-cache(1), it is a cache file generated by
gtk-update-icon-cache.

This behaviour violates the File Hierachy Standard, chapter 4: "[...]
/usr is [...], read-only data. That means that /usr [...] must not be
written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with time is
stored elsewhere. [...]"

gtk-update-icon-cache should use /var/cache for such caches.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-bin depends on:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.5-4   GTK+ graphical user interface libr
ii  libgtk2.0-common              2.24.5-4   common files for the GTK+ graphica

libgtk2.0-bin recommends no packages.

libgtk2.0-bin suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information






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