Bug#677834: writes to /usr/share/jed/lib during postinst

[Marc Haber]

Package: jed-common
Version: 1:0.99.19-2.1
Severity: normal

I am not sure whether this is a policy violation, but it is most
probably a surprise for most users. In Debian I expect all files under
/usr to come from packages, and thus be static. This is not the case
for the *.slc files that are written to /usr/share/jed/lib during
postinst with a call to /usr/share/jed/compile/jed-common install.

In my expectations, such files should be in /var/lib since they're
variable data and not registered with the packaging system.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.2-zgws1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages jed-common depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.16.4.2
ii  install-info  4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  slsh          2.2.4-13

Versions of packages jed-common recommends:
ii  jed   1:0.99.19-2.1
ii  xjed  1:0.99.19-2.1

Versions of packages jed-common suggests:
ii  jed [info-browser]        1:0.99.19-2.1
ii  jed-extra [info-browser]  2.5.6-2
ii  konqueror [info-browser]  4:4.8.4-1
ii  pinfo [info-browser]      0.6.9-5.1
ii  xjed [info-browser]       1:0.99.19-2.1

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