Bug#196582: Upgrading severity.

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:28:22PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

 > Some misunderstanding here, I guess.  update-texmf didn't kill off
 > user's modifications.  Users modify files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and
 > every modifications are restored after update-texmf'ing.

 $ cat Some-Random-TeX-HOWTO
 ...
    Open /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf in an editor and change [...]
 ...

 You don't get that, do you?

 It's BAD if Debian is different.

 > I was a bit tired to discuss this issue, sorry for that.

 You are joking, right?  Why am I not laughing then?

 > I think it is not good to provide /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf by default
 > because even if we put it under a control of ucf, a user's answer
 > will be uniquely "yes, please replace it" when an additional TeX
 > package modifies it.  It is useless to ask here.

 Have you even looked at ucf?  Or better yet, did you read the thread
 where the problems in _your_ package were being pointed out and
 excruciatingly discussed and solutions were being proposed?  Or was it
 too tiresome for you?  It was certainly tiresome for me.  Having to
 explain the _same_thing_ for the Nth time to make you see what the
 problem is and why it needs fixing was no fun ride for me, you can be
 sure about that.  I think it's extremely disrespectful of you to just
 ignore emails from fellow developers because you are "tired".

 Marcelo