Bug#180770: generated files in /etc

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

From: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#180770: generated files in /etc
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:38:06 +0100

> File /etc/texmf/dvips/pdftex_ndl14.map and friends are tagged as conffile,
> despite the file contents reading:
> 
> % pdftex_ndl14.map: maintained by the script updmap.
> %   Don't change this file directly. Edit texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
> %   and run updmap to recreate this file.
>    
> 
> 1. they should not be conffiles

Yes, I noticed this.  One possible problem is they are
not generated within tetex-base, they need tetex-bin to
be generated.

I'm not sure yet but they should be configuration files 
or they should be removed completely form tetex-base.

We need more investigation and/or test...

> 2. as generated files, they belong to /var, possibly with compat symlinks
> from /etc if you don't want to change the source, but upstream should
> consider moving them there too.

Then why configuration files, which are generated in many 
cases, are under /etc ?

Thanks,			2003-2-13(Thu)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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