Bug#59740: tetex-bin: xdvi does not read /etc/texmf/XDvi

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

reassign 59740 dpkg
retitle 59740 dpkg should remove obsolete conffiles on upgrades
thanks

Josip Rodin writes:
 > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:37:30PM +0100, Nils Bokermann wrote:
 > >  >  > And there is a /etc/texmf/XDvi (a real file, not a symlink)
 > >  >  > 
 > >  >  > So there are 2 XDvi-Files.
 > >  > 
 > >  > This must be a leftover in your installation. It was a config file in
 > >  > a previous version and hat to move to
 > >  > /etc/X11/Xresources/tetex-base. dpkg should have removed it.
 > 
 > No, on upgrades, dpkg doesn't seem to remove files left out from conffiles
 > list in the new package. Only on purges.
 > 
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