Bug#175783: tetex-base: "Remove old conffiles" question is unhelpfully terse
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#175783: tetex-base: "Remove old conffiles" question is unhelpfully terse
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:36:08 +0000
> Perhaps tetex-base could detect itself whether you've modified any of
> these old conffiles? If the new tetex-base hasn't been installed yet,
> then you can use 'dpkg -s' to extract the old base md5sums and compare
> them with what's on the system; this would therefore have to be done in
> the preinst. Then you could even possibly remove unmodified files
> without having to ask, and only bother the user for modified files.
Hmm, I don't see so much meaning to preserve non-used files
even if they were modified....
Anyway I have an impression that we prevent sane advance
for normal users because of the possibility that there might
be exceptional users.
For example, I didn't checked it but, the configuration
of PS fonts should be completely changed when PSNFSS was
introduced.
Even in these situations, is it so important to preserve
user's modification (not effective any more)?
I'm inclined to think that it might be better to provide
every map files as ordinary files, except perhaps
psfonts.map, pdftex.map (and dvipdfm.map in the forthcoming
teTeX 2.0). (More investigation is needed, of course)
I almost give up to fix this bug now and left it to someone else.
# I will prepare to be able to package the forthcoming
# teTeX 2.0
Best regards, 2003.1.9(Thu)
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Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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