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

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

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#197579: tetex-base: on purge, this pkg removes conffiles from other packages
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:29:37 +0200

> OK, I see. So during purging of tetex-base we must remove only the
> files, which might have been created during postin. The following
> patch might do this. The creation of these files is done during
> postin of tetex-bin and they are removed during postin on tetex-bin,

right (very complicated, indeed),

> so I don't know in the moment, why the entry for /etc/texmf exist
> anyway 

this "rm -rf /etc/texmf" was added by me to close: #61293
(from changelog.Debian, my memory was not so clear ;-)
It seemed at least /etc/texmf/dvips was left after purge.

> anyway (oh wait, language.dat is not removed during postrm of
> tetex-bin). In postin of tetex-bin I found further:
> 
>   rm -f ${TEXMFC}* ${FMTCNF}*
>   rm -rf ${TEXMFD}
>   rm -rf ${FMTD}
> 
> in case of purge, with
> 
> TEXMFC=/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> FMTCNF=/etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
> TEXMFD=/etc/texmf/texmf.d
> FMTD=/etc/texmf/fmt.d
> 
> which is IMHO the same policy violation. We should remove only the
> generated files and the files* versions and then we're done. The last
> two commands are surplus.
> Who will ever remove /etc/texmf if it is found to be empty? dpkg?

I guess so.

> Hope I didn't tell too much nonsense.

Thanks for your investigation.  I will fix these problem.

Regards,			2003-6-17(Tue)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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