On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:26:19PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > package: tetex-bin > severity: important > Pretend that I'm a new user of TeX. I install TeX as a build > dependency of some package I want to build. (The second part is true; > I'm actually fairly familiar with Tex, but not everyone in the world > is) > I'm prompted with the following: > Configuring tetex-bin > --------------------- > The metafont program can store fonts generated by users running xdvi, dvips, > etc. so they need not be re-generated repeatedly. They are stored in > /var/lib/texmf and /var/cache/fonts, with "ls-R" file lists showing where the > font files are stored. > Accepting this option will allow you to easily manage the permissions of those > ls-R files using debconf. > :-! Use debconf to manage permissions of ls-R files? > That's completely unacceptable to present as a high priority question > to a new user. IT has an obvious default (yes) and tetex-bin is a > dependency of enough stuff that it should not ask questions during a > normal install. As usual, this question only exists because it masks a more insidious bug: there would be no reason to ask at all if the debconf support were actually policy-compliant in the handling of users' local configuration. This should, by all rights, be a "serious" bug, but I don't know whether it's realistic to consider this RC for sarge now that it's been ignored for so long. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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