Bug#197579: tetex-base: on purge, this pkg removes conffiles from other packages

[Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>]

Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2-4
Severity: critical


/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postrm contains these lines:

if [ "x$1" = "xpurge" ]; then
  rm -fr /var/spool/texmf /var/lib/texmf /var/cache/fonts /etc/texmf \
      /etc/texdoctk || true
fi

This has the effect of deleting the jadetex files in /etc/texmf/jadetex,
for instance, which is inappropriate, causes jadetex to fail to be
able to build memory dumps (being worked around in Bug#197034 btw),
and causes dataloss (hence the severity).

It probably also deletes conffiles from other packages as well


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: sparc
Kernel: Linux arroz 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.35     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.10    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  texinfo                       4.3-1      Documentation system for on-line i

-- debconf information excluded