Bug#69600: tetex-bin modifies conffile in postinst
severity 69600 serious
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tetex-bin's postinst calls texconfig which modifies /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf,
a conffile. This breaks the following must clause in the policy:
11.7.3. Behavior
----------------
Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior:
* local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade, and
* configuration files must be preserved when the package is
removed, and only deleted when the package is purged.
The easy way to achieve this behavior is to make the configuration
file a `conffile'. This is appropriate only if it is possible to
distribute a default version that will work for most installations,
although some system administrators may choose to modify it. This
implies that the default version will be part of the package
distribution, and must not be modified by the maintainer scripts
^^^^^^^^
during installation (or at any other time).
One possible to address this would be to remove this file from the package
so that it is no longer a conffile.
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