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ubuntu-mate-artwork package

Fails: dpkg -V ubuntu-mate-icon-themes

Bug #2091208 reported by Alkis Georgopoulos
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Bug Description

In any Ubuntu 24.04 installation, the following command suggests that the ubuntu-mate-icon-themes package has been locally modified:

# dpkg -V ubuntu-mate-icon-themes
??5?????? /usr/share/icons/Yaru-MATE-light/icon-theme.cache

This isn't the case though. I'm guessing that cache file is regenerated on postinst or something, and it differs from the md5sum when the package was created:

# grep cache /var/lib/dpkg/info/ubuntu-mate-icon-themes.md5sums
2ce9e84da5d2411b86432d976b6e1a7e usr/share/icons/Yaru-MATE-light/icon-theme.cache

# md5sum /usr/share/icons/Yaru-MATE-light/icon-theme.cache
0aabb1d8b857464fc3779128e60621da /usr/share/icons/Yaru-MATE-light/icon-theme.cache

AFAIK this is a violation of the Debian packaging policy; packages are not supposed to modify files under /usr, and especially files that they ship as part of a package.
Maybe the cache file can be generated somewhere under /var/cache, and not included in the package at all.

Thank you!

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