Bug#233886: tetex-base upgrade from woody pretend I have modified /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:46:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
>> Still I think that 5 is 5 too much. Nobody of us has experience with ucf
>> (or possible alternatives), I fear. Are you sure that it will help to
>> resolve the situation - now that the mess is yet there, and the old
>> files are not under ucf control?
>
> By not using dpkg, you will have much more control on the process. For
> example you can compare the md5sum of the files with those of the woody
> version. If they match, the the file was not modified, and so you skip
> the question.
>
> The new config files will no more be conffiles, which may lead to
> unclean sid to sid upgrade, but I beleive it is much more important
> to have a clean woody to sarge update.

While working on the packages for the tetex-beta for 3.0, I have
implemented this - at least for the files in tetex-base and
tetex-extra. I think it will be quite straightforward to backport this
to tetex-2.0.2, but it will for sure take some working time.

At the moment I still have hope that tetex will be released early
enough, and that sarge will be late enough for us to make packages
ready. Therefore I would like to postpone this backporting until it is
clear that it is needed at all. But if anyone else is interested - I'll
upload the beta packages tomorrow to http://people.debian.org/~frank,
the code's in there

(By the way, the sid-to-sid upgrade works well, too.)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie