Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
On 31.10.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
Hi all,
> > If I misunderstand your idea and it is really possible
> > to provide language.dat modified by debconf and also
> > (completely) human editable, then very sorry.
>
> I don't know Hilmar's ideas ;-), but yes, it is.
>
I don't have really ideas. I have only one problem with putting
language.dat into /var. language.dat contains informations specific
to that teTeX installation. This information should be found anywhere
in /etc, as all configurations of a Debian GNU/Linux system can be
found there. So I can back up /etc and have all informations I need
to set up another box the same way. I guess this is what the original
submitter speaks about. The decisions stored by debconf are not
sitting in /etc either.
This problem is not really dependent on manual modifications of
language.dat.
I spoke about that debconf stuff, as you started arguing that debconf
manipulated files belong to /var. I couldn't find a place in the
policy, which does forbid that, but (on my woody box) files with the
notice "GENERATED" (maybe by debconf) and still sitting in /etc.
Regards,
Hilmar
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