Re: [etch] RC bug in tetex-base will break upgrade to lenny
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> we request that you consider allowing an update of tetex-base in etch to
> fix a bug that could break the etch-to-lenny upgrade under certain
> circumstances. Below is the detailed explanation.
We had the same problem with ssh in the sarge->etch upgrade.
> The new tetex-base package for etch would differ only in the changelog
> and the postrm, which would lack these lines:
>
> for oldconffile in $UNUSED_CONFFILES $FORMER_UCF; do
> newname=`get_newfilename $oldconffile`
> remove_with_backups /etc/texmf/$newname
> done
> for oldconfdir in $UNUSED_CONFDIRS; do
> rmdir /etc/texmf/$oldconfdir 2>/dev/null || true
> done
>
> and (as you prefer) the variable and function declarations used
> therein (which make up about 85 of the 300 lines of the postrm).
Please explain how a purge of this will now remove the files.
Bastian
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