Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 11, 2002
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> what shall be do about our outstandig RC bugreport?
>
> BugScan reporter writes:
> > Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
> > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
> > 69600 Prompts for changed conffile
>
> There are three possible solutions.
>
> a) Distribute texmf.cnf separately as a normal file, install it on a
> fresh install via postinst and change it automatically whenever
> needed. That would imply an automatic update script for migrating if
> ever the format or the content of texmf.cnf has to change (like from
> slink to potato). Not trivial.
>
> b) Distribute texmf.cnf as a conffile but only change it automatically
> on a fresh install and not while upgrading. This is only a minimal
> change. Should be easy to implement.
>
> c) The change we are doing each upgrade time is setting VARTEXDIR. We
> could also change that in the original texmf.cnf and distribute
> that. That would be a patch to texk/make/paths.mk and to the postinst
> files in both tetex-bin and tetex-base.
>
> Any Thoughts?
Thought: texmf.cnf should really not live in tetex-base but rather in
the libkpathsea* package, as it's only the library which makes use of
it directly, not the tetex-* packages themselves. I just discovered
that this week while working on CWEB. But it can't be a conffile in
this package, as that will break if libkpathsea gets a new major
version number. So it sounds like option (a), while non-trivial, may
actually be the best long-term solution, and this script would go in
the libkpathsea* package, not in tetex-base.
Julian
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