Bug#140927: Configuration files should be preserved on upgrades.

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
Subject: Re: Bug#140927: Configuration files should be preserved on upgrades.
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:14:22 +0200 (CEST)

> > A user will be asked whether to replace a conffile or
> > not at upgrading.
> 
> Exactly. I want to be asked. I do not want my changes to be lost.
> Policy says local changes must be preserved. 

I understand that you want to be asked.  But please
consider this as a generic issue.

> I understand this may be
> difficult for texmf.d but for fmt.d it should be easy enough.

I guess you said "for fmt.d it should be easy enough"
from only the technical point of view.  Yes it would
be easy to copy old fmtutil.cnf to 00tetex.cnf.

But the new scheme expects/assumes to add extra settings
through update-fmtutil from fmt.d/*.cnf so, except the
case of removing unwanted formats as you mentioned already, 
it will be much better to have a genuine 00tetex.cnf at first 
than to have a (possibly) modified 00tetex.cnf from the beginning 
in general.

Under these conditions, I can not say so simply "for fmt.d 
it should be easy enough".

I still doubt that it is really good to copy old fmtutil.cnf 
to 00tetex.cnf

Best regards,			2002.4.5

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 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima


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