Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked

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

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:29:16 +0200

> > Hmm, I was confused.  I don't know what "debconf data"
> > means
> > 
> I mean, deconf asks questions and the answers are stored anywhere. I
> believed that whould be anywhere in /var/cache/debconf/.

I see, and I think you are right.  The answers would be stored
in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat IMHO.

> I generally I think it is a better idea to have config files, which
> are not completely generated out of others, in /etc. e.g. XF86Config
> can be handeled using debconfig but is sitting anyway in /etc.

This is very delicate and I doubt policy permits that kind 
of config files.  The latest xserver changed its handling of 
XF86Config as far as I know.

>   * /etc/texmf/language.dat was a configuration file and not a conffile,
>     and now it could be handled automatically with debconf with the new
>     tetex-bin (>> 2.0.1-2).  [kohda]
> 
>  -- Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>  Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:57:31 +0900
> 
> Was is that time, when you moved language.dat into /var?

No, at that time we started to use debconf to generate 
language.dat but in /etc (not /var yet).

The time of moving language.dat into /var was

tetex-bin (2.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed update-* scripts, postinst etc. so that they could preserve user
    midifications.  [kohda]  (Closes: #189370)
(snip)
 -- Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>  Sat, 31 May 2003 20:28:15 +0900

I think it is safe to put language.dat under /var in a 
standard installation.


Regards,			       2003-10-18(Sat)