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

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Sep 24 21:58:14 UTC 2005


On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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.

A conffile from *what* package?

$ dpkg -S /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
dpkg: /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules not found.
$

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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