Bug#233886: tetex-base upgrade from woody pretend I have modified /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf
Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> schrieb:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:15:57AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 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.
I just created a pbuilder chroot with woody, logged in and installed
tetex-bin and its dependencies. Then I edited sources.list to point to
unstable (I ignored the non-us part) and did a dist-upgrade. There were
five questions for tetex, one was about /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, the other
four about files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d. So these 12 must have a
different reason, I guess.
Still I think that 5 is 5 too much. Nobody of us has experience with ucf
(or possible alternatives), I fear. Are you sure that it will help to
resolve the situation - now that the mess is yet there, and the old
files are not under ucf control?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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