Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails - additional info from cont-en.log

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Geert-Jan Hut <Geert.Jan.Hut@hutsoftware.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails - additional info from cont-en.log
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:55:36 +0100

> There was only one (obvious) additional problem. 
> 
> Installing alml again got me the question if I wanted to install the 
> maintainers version of /etc/texmf/texmf.d/94alml.cnf (as I obviously changed 
> the file) and the diff between the two versions showed exactly the changes 
> above. 
> I chose to keep my newly edited version, but I guess that if I had chosen to 
> update to the maintainers version - effectively removing the comment signs 
> ('%') - alml would not have been able to install, as I think - looking at the 
> generated output - that alml also executes 'texconfig init'. 

No, the maintainer of alml completely misunderstand the
scheme of update-texmf.  He should not provide 94alml.cnf 
as a conffile but a configuration file then the modified 
file is never, never overwritten by the package.

Thanks,				 2002-12-20(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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