Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:34:39 +0100
> > > language.dat is definitely a host specific configuration. If it
> > > sits in /var it should be generated out of files sitting in /etc.
> >
> > So far I can remember, this is the Debian policy too:
There are, perhaps (yes, it depends on what packages you
installed), over 40 config directories (which containt more
or less host specific configuration files) under /usr/share/texmf
but I suspect some of them are not under /etc
I mildly think that we maintainers have right to decide which
configuration files would be appropriate to be under /etc and
so human editable or rather be appropriate to be generated
automatically.
Further, we provided alternative to put language.dat under
/etc if necessary.
I can't see so much deficiency in the current situation.
From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:45:22 +0100
> And I think the best way to achive this would be to have language.dat in
> /etc/texmf and
>
> a) parse language.dat in config, and use the known languages that we find
> uncommented as default in our debconf question
>
> b) not rewrite language.dat, but only remove and add comments.
Although I didn't investigated your proposal in details
but I'm afraid if we put language.dat under /etc and modify
it by a script then there could be breakage when a user
modifies it in an unexpected way.
# I'll be offline soon untill tomorrow's night (in JST).
Regards, 2004-2-2(Mon)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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