Bug#196582: Upgrading severity.
On 22.07.03 Marcelo E. Magallon (mmagallo@debian.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:28:22PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
Hi,
> > 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?
>
drachi:[hille] >head /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
%%% This file is automatically generated by update-texmf
%
% Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add
% anything please take a look at the files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d, and
% invoke update-texmf.
We can create a softlink from /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/... if you like that.
> It's BAD if Debian is different.
>
Well, that concept was introduced about a year ago (and earlier). Why
didn't you complain at that time?
> > 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
> ^^^^^^
what am I missing here?
H.
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