On 22-Aug-2010, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On tisdagen den 17 augusti 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > * debian/preinst: > > + Handle the case where no cursor themes are yet installed > > (Closes: Bug#591595). > > However, it was clearly postinst that failed. What you need to do is > ship an empty /usr/share/icons/default directory. Crystalcursors had > the same bug not once but twice: 363059 and 582517.
Do I understand you correctly that *every* cursor theme package needs to ship the same empty directory? That this is cause to make a lintian override for every such empty directory? Why? Why is it not, rather, a directory provided by some single, common package? Thank you for following up on this; I'm genuinely seeking to know what the explanation is. -- \ “Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require | `\ hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be | _o__) appreciated.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney <[email protected]>
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