[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#291155: dpkg-reconfigure gpm doesn't work with read-only /usr

[Federico 'Derfel' Stella]

Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-19
Severity: normal

dpkg-reconfigure gpm doesn't work with read-only /usr:

finwe:~# dpkg-reconfigure gpm
install-info(/usr/share/info/gpm.info): failed to lock dir for editing!  Read-only file system
install-info(/usr/share/info/gpm.info): warning - unable to unlock /usr/share/info/dir: No such file or directory
install-info(/usr/share/info/gpm.info): create /usr/share/info/dir.new: Read-only file system

It works without problems if /usr is mouted read-write.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (95, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT@euro)

Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.41       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.11.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  ucf                         1.13         Update Configuration File: preserv

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