Bug#277863: tetex-bin: update-updmap should run updmap command in the end

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> On 30.11.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> >> That would be certainly acceptable.
>> >> 
>> > Thanks. Frank, what about the following patch?
>> 
>> Hmmm... this will write "Don't forget to call updmap!" when
>> packages shipping fonts are upgraded, even though this is not
>> necessary.
>> 
>> What you (especially the bug reporter) seem to want here is a
>> verbose-by-default mode of operation for update-updmap.
>> 
> I wouldn't make the whole story that complicated. The submitter just
> wants a small reminder to call updmap after he updated updmap.cfg. If
> you don't like the simple solution above, we could expand the message
> a little bit:
>
> "Don't forget to call updmap, if you've installed/removed fonts!
> That should only be necessary if the installation was done manually
> and not by a Debian package."

I tend to agree with Florent. His solution is more complicated for us,
and especially for maintainers of other packages; but it seems cleaner
to me from the point of view of a user. Your new text is longer and more
explicative, but this might in turn annoy experienced users, and I think
package installations should be as quiet as possible.

On the other hand, we don't gain anything if we use Florents version
right now, but all other maintainer scripts still don't use quiet. I'd
suggest to add the --quiet option, but actually let it do nothing until
we've made sure that sufficiently many packages use it.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer