On söndagen den 22 augusti 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > 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?
I've just recently begun looking into cursor packages, but as I understand it, that's how things stand currently. Strangely enough, lintian doesn't complain about the empty directory in crystalcursors. I haven't figured out why yet. > Why is it not, rather, a directory provided by some single, common > package? I don't think there is actually any suitable package to hold it. Cursor themes are handled on the client side of X, so x11-common and other server-side packages are out. I also don't think it's a good idea to put it libxcursor or any other client library package. I think that what it would come down to is a cursor-themes-common package that would contain nothing but that empty directory, and that's hardly worth it. -- Magnus Holmgren [email protected] Debian Developer
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