Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> The file is under ucf control (I omitted that to lessen complexity),
Hey! We are doctors. You have to tell us _everything_. :-)
> but ucf does not know about the file any more if it is not in the new
> package and will therefore not handle it.
Uh, if you don't 'ucf --purge' it, I fear it will remain in the ucf
cache. There is code doing what you want in tetex-bin (not written by
me). For instance, in debian/common.functions.in, you can find:
ucf_md5sum(){
file=$1
md5sum=$(grep "$file$" /var/lib/ucf/hashfile | cut -f 1 -d ' ')
if [ -z "$md5sum" ]; then
get_sarge_md5sum_from_list $file
fi
echo $md5sum
}
[...]
preinst_remove_or_move_ucf(){
file=/etc/texmf/$1
newname=$(get_newfilename $1)
debug $file
test -f "$file" || return 0
debug "handled\n"
oldmd5sum=$(ucf_md5sum $file)
currmd5sum=$(md5sum $file | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
if [ "$oldmd5sum" != "$currmd5sum" ]; then
mv $file $oldstuff_dir/$(basename $file).$PREINST_MOVE_EXT
else
rm $file
if [ -x /usr/bin/ucf ]; then ucf --purge $file; fi
fi
}
HTH.
--
Florent