Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

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

From: Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
Date: 17 Apr 2003 20:32:41 -0400

> reopen 189370
> thanks

sigh.

> Only if you can *perfectly* preserve changes.

There is nothing perfect in this world, I think ;)

> You just overwrote a configuration file with something else.  I could
> have easily modified that file.
> 
> In fact I just tested this.  I have "tetex-bin/use_debconf" set to true,
> and then I did: echo '%test' >> /etc/texmf/language.dat, then I did
> apt-get install --reinstall tetex-bin.  The postinst happily destroyed
> my local changes.

This is natural because you choose to destory your setting 
with setting tetex/bin/use_debconf to true.
Note the priority is high in this case.

Even if the default setting "true" might have slight possibilty 
to cause problem, "default" answer should be for majority users
and I think "true" is correct setting in real system.

If this breaks Policy really I suspect Policy should be changed
in a more realistic way.

Thanks,				2003-4-18(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.