Bug#197579: tetex-base: on purge, this pkg removes conffiles from other packages

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 16.06.03 Adam Di Carlo (aph@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postrm contains these lines:
> 
> if [ "x$1" = "xpurge" ]; then
>   rm -fr /var/spool/texmf /var/lib/texmf /var/cache/fonts /etc/texmf \
>       /etc/texdoctk || true
> fi
> 
> This has the effect of deleting the jadetex files in
> /etc/texmf/jadetex, for instance, which is inappropriate, causes
> jadetex to fail to be able to build memory dumps (being worked
> around in Bug#197034 btw), and causes dataloss (hence the
> severity).
> 
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 might be still a policy violation.

> It probably also deletes conffiles from other packages as well.
> 
TeX-related packages, which can't exist without tetex-base anyway?

H. 
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