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

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

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#197579: tetex-base: on purge, this pkg removes conffiles from other packages
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:29:37 +0200

> OK, I see. So during purging of tetex-base we must remove only the
> files, which might have been created during postin. The following
> patch might do this. 

For clarification.  Did you refer to 2.0.2-4?  In 2.0.2-4.1,
generated files are in /var/lib/texmf/web2c so 
"rm -rf /var/lib/texmf/web2c" is enough to remove them 
and this line should be in tetex-bin.postrm, I guess.

("rm -rf /var/lib/texmf" in tetx-base.postrm is to remove
ls-R etc. so it is another story, IMHO)

> anyway (oh wait, language.dat is not removed during postrm of
> tetex-bin). 

Of course, your suggestion for removing /etc/texmf/language.dat
is reasonable.

> tetex-bin). In postin of tetex-bin I found further:
> 
>   rm -f ${TEXMFC}* ${FMTCNF}*
>   rm -rf ${TEXMFD}
>   rm -rf ${FMTD}
> 
> in case of purge, with
> 
> TEXMFC=/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
> FMTCNF=/etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
> TEXMFD=/etc/texmf/texmf.d
> FMTD=/etc/texmf/fmt.d
> 
> which is IMHO the same policy violation. We should remove only the
> generated files and the files* versions and then we're done. The last
> two commands are surplus.

So, you mean

>  if [ x"$1" = xpurge ] ; then
> -  rm -f ${TEXMFC}* ${FMTCNF}*
> +  rm -f ${TEXMFC}* ${FMTCNF}* ${LDAT}*
>    rm -rf ${TEXMFD}
>    rm -rf ${FMTD}

 -  rm -rf ${TEXMFD}
 -  rm -rf ${FMTD}

and should add (as I explained above),

 + rm -rf /var/lib/texmf/web2c

Or, does this also do something harmful?

Thanks,				2003-6-21(Sat)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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