Re: Help sought: debian/texlive configuration/interaction with tex-common

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Sam, 16 Jul 2005, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> language.dat:
>> 
>> Here I have a proposal: 

I should have read on instead of answering to your first mail, sorry. 

> What about doing something similar as with
>> fmtutil with language.dat:
>> 
>> Create /etc/texmf/language.d
>> put config file snippets into it (handled by ucf)

There's no need to handle them by ucf for completely new stuff.  Just
make them conffiles.  ucf is only necessary 

- when you take over files from an other package (because dpkg doesn't
  grok if the file is an *unchanged* version from a different package,
  and complains about user changes when you install your new version
  under the same name)

- when you have to edit the files in maintainer scripts

Our usage of ucf for texmf.cnf is not strictly necessary, it is only
there because we chose to put the generated texmf.cnf into /etc/texmf.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer