Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

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

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:52:43 -0500

> > Without the current cheme all TeX system breaks so, in short, the
> > new scheme is indispensable infrastructure for TeX system and there
> > is no choice other than to accept to the new scheme.
> 
> 	Rubbish. You could have let the old system remain, and posted
>  a high priority note saying that replace the config files with
>  *.dpkg-new or else TeX shall break. Let the human make the
>  decision. With a manual merge, perhaps the admin would carry changes
>  over. 

In this point, I was very confused.

I have an impression that someone said that we should 
remark with debconf and others said that it was abuse
of debconf.  What is the correct understanding?

At present, I reserved the old texmf.cnf as texmf.cnf.dpkg-old
and expalin how to merge local modifications to the new 
scheme in README.Debian without using debconf.

Thanks,			2003-4-21(Mon)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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