[Dict-common-dev] Re: Bug#324111: aspell-en: checksum mismatch between package and filesystem

[Brian Nelson]

tag 324111 wontfix
thanks

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:36:43AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> when checking the md5sums of aspell-en, there are always the following
> mismatches between package and filesystem:
[snip]
> You should not change files on-the-fly that you did put under package
> management control (i.e. put them into the package).
> If you need some defaults for these files, create them in the postinst
> script. For example, you could ship them im some other directory
> (like /usr/share/.../defaults) and (conditionally) copy them while
> postinst.
> No need to mention: make sure you carefully remove them while the
> package removal phase, too :)

This was a deliberate decision by myself and Agustin.  I can't see any
point in making sure files packaged in /var directories don't change,
since files in /var are of course expected to change.  Also, not
including these files in the .deb packages significantly complicates the
packaging.  I really don't want to change to manangement of the files in
maintainer scripts without a very good reason to do so.

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