Re: updmap.d: removing file in postrm?

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

From: Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: updmap.d: removing file in postrm?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:43:14 +0200

> I package the Latin Modern Fonts for Debian (unofficial). Therefore I
> need to provide a conf file '/etc/texmf.d/updmap.d/10lm.cfg' which is
> used by the call of 'update-updmap' in 'postinst' and finally by
> 'updmap'.
> 
> My question is whether I should remove (delete) this conf file in
> 'postrm' or just rely on the '--pruge' option of e.g. dpkg?
> 
> If I leave the conf file in place it gets included again by any other
> package which is calling 'update-updmap'.

Yes, so at "remove" in postrm, please rename 10lm.cfg
to 10lm.bak (or similar) and at "purge" please remove
at least 10lml.bak.  It might be possible to rely on
dpkg to delete 10lm.cfg at purge, perhaps.

Please read README.Debian of tetex-bin.

Thanks,			  2003-8-18(Mon)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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