Bug#208408: tetex-bin: No hyphenation patterns were loaded
Marcus Frings <protagonist@gmx.net> schrieb:
> * frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
>> Marcus Frings <protagonist@gmx.net> schrieb:
>
>>> After upgrading to the latest tetex-bin it is no longer possible to use
>>> \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}" as it can't find German hypenation.
>
>> Did you see the debconf question about hyphenation patterns upon
>> upgrade? If no, it's a bug. If yes, I must say it's your fault (because
>> it asked you which hyphenation patterns you wanted, and we changed the
>> default).
>
> No, after upgrading there were no automatically shown debconf
> questions. I think it is a bug because for my installations < 2.0.2-4.3
> I had German hyphenation patterns installed whereas the current one
> seems to delete my settings after the upgrade.
[...]
> I guess it is a bug because why should tetex-bin remove my previous
> settings?
These weren't your previous settings, it was just the default for
everybody, spaniards, turks and japanese, to generate french and the two
german patterns in any case. We dropped that, I was argueing very much
in favor of this, and so this bug is kind of my fault.
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204459)
One possibility would be to simply switch back to the old default
behavior. However, I would prefer something different.
Couldn't we check wether the hyphen question has been seen and, if yes,
set it to unseen and warn the user about the changed defaults before
showing it? Then only noninteractive installs will break, but people
using this should have read debconf(7) and know in advance they have to
manipulate the debconf database before the installation.
Comments?
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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