Bug#150511: tetex-bin: the postinst fails to preserve user changes in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and others
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#150511: tetex-bin: the postinst fails to preserve user changes in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and others
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:07:55 -0500
> Atsuhito> I belive this feature of update-texmf is much, much, much
> Atsuhito> more important than you can imagine. These packages should
> Atsuhito> stop to work if we stop to use update-texmf.
>
> So don't stop. Just ask the user before update-texmf blows
> away changes. preserve old version in the backups directory (after
> asking).
Only this point right now. I couldn't help saying you
didn't realize the real situation.
If a user answered not to use update-texmf since he/she
wanted to preserve his/her favarite hand crafted texmf.cnf
and he/she tried to install ptex-bin etc., he/she should
fail to generate their *.fmt files because TeX engine(s)
couldn't find necessary files and so failed to install them.
There is no choice but to use texmf.cnf generated by update-texmf
in fact.
The best we can do is to preserve (possibly) hand crafted
texmf.cnf as texmf.cnf.dpkg-old, IMHO.
The reason we introduced the new scheme was, without it, xmltex,
ptex-bin etc. etc. couldn't help violating policy because they
need to modify texmf.cnf, which is a conffile of tetex-bin.
Best regards, 2002.6.26
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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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