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Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked



Hello,

Hilmar Preusse wrote:
On 28.11.03 Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp) wrote:

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>


Hi all,


Nope the whole subthread has nothing to do with the original
submission, however I still agree with the submitter, that
language.dat should go into /etc.

I myself don't object to it but I'm still not willing to put language.dat under /etc I believe that your main concern was to backup information
for setting up another box.

My quick rough idea is;

- answer no to debconf question "Manage language.dat with debconf?"


OK, one solution. If we accept that we should at inform the user,
that language.dat from no on will sit in /var and not in /etc.


- backup /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
- create /var/etc and put every "generated configuration files"
 under it.  But I don't know FHS enough and might need to change
 policy.


Well, I had a look at FHS version 2.1. It says nothing about a
directory /var/etc and IMHO both dirs (/etc and /var) have two
contrary purposes. For /var it reads:
"/var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories
and files, administrative and logging data, and transient and
temporary files."
"/etc contains configuration files and directories that are specific
to the current system."
So /var/etc should be a directory, containing host specific
configurations, which a variable during runtime?

language.dat is definitely a host specific configuration. If it sits
in /var it should be generated out of files sitting in /etc.

So far I can remember, this is the Debian policy too:

I guess as texmf.cnf (unstable) is

Is there a special mailing list in Debian where we can ask the
question, whether we can leave that file in /var or if we should put
it back into /etc? If they decide that /var ist OK I'll shut up.

have a look to:

http://lists.debian.org/devel.html

Thanks,
Jerome




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