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upgrade to 2.0.2-4 in debian/testing and config-files



Hi,

I recently upgraded our tex-packages to the newer version. Now, after a few 
days I noticed that our old configuration files in /etc/texmf are simply 
ingnored. 

So after some stracing I found out that those files are read from 
'/var/lib/texmf/web2c'! 
E.g., we made some changes to '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf', this file still exists, 
a newer file in '/var/lib/texmf/web2c' also exists, but only the file 
'/var/lib/texmf/web2c' is used. 
IMHO, it is quite unsual to have configuration files within the /var directory 
and I think its even more unsual if one is not noticed by the upgrade-script 
about those important changes. 
I think the upgrade-script told me somethink about overwriting the old config 
file and trying to pare it, so I made a back up first. After upgrading the 
file had not changed, so I expected everything would work.

Is there a way to have the configuration files back to /etc/texmf?

Thanks,
	Bernd


-- 
Bernd Schubert
Physikalisch Chemisches Institut / Theoretische Chemie
Universität Heidelberg
INF 229
69120 Heidelberg
e-mail: bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de



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