Bug#170592: tetex-base: improperly handling /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:31:32AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Okay, then I have an intention to modify update-texmf
> so that it will search only /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*.cnf
> as update-fmtutil does.
OK. Unless it's going to break existing users' configurations, in
which case there should be a warning for sarge.
> But we should rename /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF to
> /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf etc. in preinst.
Yes. Or perhaps copied instead.
> Also we should announce this modification to the maintainers
> of related packages.
Yes.
> As I said before, I have no knowledge on Perl so I would
> like to write preinst of tetex-bin in shell script.
>
> Is there any objection or any idea?
No, but I recommend that the existing preinsts are simply removed. If
a preinst is required, it should be done from scratch. (And add a
#DEBHELPER# line too!)
Julian
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