Bug#69600: tetex-bin includes a script that modifies its own conffile!

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

Am Sam, 2002-02-16 um 06.49 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> reopen 69600
> severity 69600 important
> thanks
> 
> Handling a configuration file as a conffile is only the correct solution 
> if there is a reasonable default config that should work for the 
> majority of users; however, the fact that other packages need to modify 
> this configuration file (e.g., ptex-bin) tells me that there is not a 
> single default configuration that works for all users.
> 
> The proper solution is to not ship /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf as a conffile,
> instead managing the file with the maintainer scripts (as before) and
> providing a standard script that other packages can use to make 
> necessary changes to the file.

You are right with your conclusion if many packages have to change one
config file. But no other package maintainer ever told us that he want
to change tetex's config files. So this would be a bug of these other
packages changing our config files.

In the current status only tetex-base/bin are responsible for the
conffile. They don't change it in maintainer scripts. So this is the
correct bahavior. The severity should be wishlist and the wish is to
have a script that handles all this.

Christoph