Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 11, 2002

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

Hi all,

what shall be do about our outstandig RC bugreport?

BugScan reporter writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
 > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
 >   69600  Prompts for changed conffile

There are three possible solutions.

a) Distribute texmf.cnf separately as a normal file, install it on a
fresh install via postinst and change it automatically whenever
needed. That would imply an automatic update script for migrating if
ever the format or the content of texmf.cnf has to change (like from
slink to potato). Not trivial.

b) Distribute texmf.cnf as a conffile but only change it automatically
on a fresh install and not while upgrading. This is only a minimal
change. Should be easy to implement.

c) The change we are doing each upgrade time is setting VARTEXDIR. We
could also change that in the original texmf.cnf and distribute
that. That would be a patch to texk/make/paths.mk and to the postinst
files in both tetex-bin and tetex-base.

Any Thoughts?

Christoph