On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:06:32 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear release managers, > > we have prepared two more packages, one for texlive-base and one for > texlivve-extra which we would like to get into squeeze. > > Let's start with the easy one: > > texlive-extra 2009-10 > > * add the forgotten epoch for musixtex dependency (Closes: #587746) > > This chnage is trivail, it only adds the forgotten epco to musixtex > dependency, which was not included in the upload before. It is not > aserious issue, since there are no other musixtex packages around > anyway. > If there's likely to be other changes before release I'd rather defer this. Otherwise go ahead. > More difficult is the situation with texlive-base: > > texlive-base 2009-11 > > * texlive-base conflict with texlive-base-bin-doc to get it removed > (Closes: #589205) > * avoid unneeded 10texlive-base.cnfpre-edit files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d, > thanks Jörg-Volker Peetz (Closes: #584950) > > The first item is harmless, more important is the second. > I don't understand the rationale for the first item. If the old package is not doing any actual harm then conflicting with it isn't necessary. > It comes from a long history: While upgrading from 2005 -> 2007 packages > we carried over some configurations from texlive-base-bin.cnf in > /etc/texmf/fmt.d into texlive-base.cnf (same dir). > > These additional lines created some problem in the 2009 version, as > the 2009 version of fmtutil introduced a loop detection mechanism so > that mutliple format definitions are leading to an error. > > The code in the texlive-base.postinst in the *current* version in testing > now unconditionally edits texlive-base.cnf in place creating a backup > file > /etc/texmf/fmt.d/texlive-base.cnfpre-edit > even if no changes were necessary (i.e., when you have not upgraded all > the way from etch). > > The change in this package no protects this in place editing with > a check whether the actual target line really occurs. > Sounds ok. Cheers, Julien
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