Re: [etch] RC bug in tetex-base will break upgrade to lenny
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> 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).
>
> Would you agree with such a fix?
I don't see this bug as a bug but as a feature. It's what purge is
suppose to do, if user don't want to have conffiles removed he/her
should remove the package, not purge.
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