Package: r-base-core
Version: 4.5.2-1
Severity: wishlist
User: [email protected]
Usertags: dh-usrlocal
Prompted by recent changes in fontconfig's handling of
/usr/local/share/fonts, I noticed that r-base-core's postinst has
an open-coded script to create /usr/local/lib/R with Policy-compliant
permissions.
Please consider using dh_usrlocal(1) for this: that way, any implementation
bugs can be fixed centrally in debhelper, and they will take effect in
all packages that use dh_usrlocal at the next rebuild.
The procedure to do that is something like this:
1. create debian/r-base-core/usr/local/lib/R
(for example with `install -d` in d/rules, or probably using
debian/r-base-core.dirs would also work)
2. make sure dh_usrlocal is run (normally dh will run it, but I see that
r-base is using individual dh_ tools so it would be necessary to
insert an explicit call to dh_usrlocal at an appropriate point in the
sequence)
3. remove open-coded logic in maintainer scripts to create (and possibly
remove) this directory
4. make sure the #DEBHELPER# placeholder appears in any maintainer scripts
that still exist
With that done, dh_usrlocal should insert maintainer script snippets
generated from /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/ to create and remove
the directory when appropriate.
Thanks,
smcv
