Bug#197579: tetex-base: on purge, this pkg removes conffiles from other packages
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
> Haven't checked that fir unstable, but at least in stable jadetext
> depends on tetex-extra, which depends on tetex-base. I.e. if anybody
> purges tetex-base, tetex-extra and jadetex will be removed too.
> This is just an opinion.
It's true, but remove != purged. Suppose you purge tetex-base, but
only remove (not purge) jadetex. Then reinstall jadetex and
tetex-base -- the jadetex conffiles are still gone. The tetex-base
ones are brought back. The only recover is to purge/reinstall jadetex
as well. But there's no dependency relationship that says "if you
purge package X, also purge Y".
> It might be still a policy violation.
It is.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@debian.org.....<URL:http://www.debian.org/>
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