[Bug 378321] [NEW] Acroread installs in opt (break if opt is not local)

[Martin Leopold]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: acroread

Hi All,
After a recent upgrade I found that acroread can no-longer be installed on my system. It turns out that acroread now wants to live in /opt, which in my case is an nfs volume (Intrepid and Jaunty seems to work the same way).

I'm not entirely sure whether this violates any policies, but in my recollection /opt is commenly not used by Ubuntu - so from my point of view this is new and undesired behavior. I couldn't find a description of the Ubuntu file system hierarchy the best I could find was a Debian overview, which reserves /opt for non-deb installs:
http://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard

Thanks in advance,
Martin Leopold.

** Affects: acroread (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Acroread installs in opt (break if opt is not local)
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