Bug#657312: keeps index files in /usr/share/man

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Wed Jan 25 14:03:04 UTC 2012


Package: perlindex
Version: 1.605-1
Severity: serious

As it seems, perlindex maintains its index files under in /usr/share/man:

$ ls -l /usr/share/man/index*
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1257472 Jan 25 07:54 /usr/share/man/index_fn
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5242880 Jan 25 07:54 /usr/share/man/index_idf
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51593216 Jan 25 07:54 /usr/share/man/index_if
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5230592 Jan 25 07:54 /usr/share/man/index_if.new
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1290240 Jan 25 07:54 /usr/share/man/index_seen

At some point in the past it seems to have used /var/cache/perlindex, as 
suggested by the debconf questions:

$ ls -l /var/cache/perlindex    # note the dates
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1302528 Feb 11  2009 index_fn
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2641920 Feb 11  2009 index_idf
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8372224 Feb 11  2009 index_if
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1294336 Feb 11  2009 index_seen

The breaking commit is cf94623 (from yours truly), converting debian/rules to 
dh7 and omitting a critical INDEXDIR setting during $(MAKE) call. Ouch!

Setting version accordingly. Will look dfor a fix.

Fixing this bug will also fix a piuparts error :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perlindex depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  libterm-readkey-perl   2.30-4+b2
ii  libtext-english-perl   1.605-3
ii  perl                   5.14.2-6

Versions of packages perlindex recommends:
ii  libio-stringy-perl  2.110-5

perlindex suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* perlindex/removeindexonpurge: true





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