Bug#233886: tetex-base upgrade from woody pretend I have modified /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:15:57AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>
> Subject: Bug#233886: tetex-base upgrade from woody pretend I have modified /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:28:21 +0100
>
> I guess you would think this is reasonable.
The rationale for the change in conffiles _are_ reasonable. What is
unreasonable is the consequences: triggering a dozen dpkg conffile prompts
for a simple, clean woody to sarge update.
You might consider stoping using dpkg conffile handling by switching to
ucf, so as to have more control about what conffiles are really changed.
What worry me is that tetex a similar problem for all stable upgrade
since slink (slink to potato, potato to woody). I expected we could do
better for woody to sarge, especially since tetex is installed on
a large fraction of Debian box.
> > One of the stated goal of Debian is to provide smooth upgrade path.
> > Prompting users about changes they know nothing about is not a good
> > thing. This is the kind of problem we should think about before making
> > changes to conffiles.
>
> Right. I believe we did it in a right way.
I am worried that you seemed not to aware of the extend of the problem
before I report it. Conffiles is something we should not treat lightly.
If every packages in Debian were to trigger the dpkg conffile handler
whereas the user made no change, upgrading to sarge is likely to require
to answer 200 queries. tetex trigger 12 useless queries by itself.
For testing, you can use debootstrap in a woody chroot (or
uml/rootstrap) to build a clean woody install, and then trying to
upgrade the tetex package.
Cheers,
Bill.
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