Bug#175783: tetex-base: "Remove old conffiles" question is unhelpfully terse

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

merge 175783 175457
thanks

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#175783: tetex-base: "Remove old conffiles" question is unhelpfully terse
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:28:58 +0000

> tetex-base asks me, via debconf:
> 
>   Remove old conffiles?
> 
>   Old conffiles which tetex-base shipped out were found.  It is strongly
>   recommended to remove these files right now!
> 
> To an even vaguely paranoid admin, this is unnerving; what files it
> going to remove (or how can I find out)? Why is it so important? Is it a
> security risk, will it break the tetex installation, or is it just
> cosmetic?

Well, I didn't suspect that the above phrase gave
an impression to a user that it was so important.

My intention was; the obsolete files were not used 
any more and they were only garbage in your HD in 
the new system.

But it would become difficult to find out obsolete conffiles
after long time passed so, in this point, it is important
(to some extent) to remove them at this chance.

> implementation detail in documentation). However, please consider
> clarifying this anyway, together with the other points above: at the
> moment it amounts to "May I remove some files from your system
> (yes/no)?".
> 
> I realize it may be difficult to fit the list of removed conffiles
> sensibly into the format of a debconf question. I trust that you can
> figure something out. :-)

I didn't want to show all filenames to a user and it was
only bothering a user without any gain.

Here is my temporary modification but as I'm not native English
speaker, I would be very happy if anyone will refine this.

Description: Remove old conffiles?
 Old conffiles which tetex-base shipped out were found.  Most of them were
 map files for dvips and now removed in the upstream.
 .
 If you think you have modified such files, then it might be possible
 not to accept this option and preserve them.  You can find the list of them
 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.config but, for almost 99% of you,
 it is strongly recommended to remove these files right now!

Thanks,			    2003-1-8(Wed)

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