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Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed



On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:58:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > So then: Where does metafun.mp come from?
> 
> branden@necrotic:~$ dlocate -S metafun.mp
> branden@necrotic:~$ locate metafun.mp
> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> branden@necrotic:~$ dpkg -S usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> dpkg: *usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp* not found.
> 
> I assure you I didn't put that file there myself.

I should note that if usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp was
*ever* a conffile and subsequently stopped being shipped by the package,
it would *not* be removed by dpkg.

Conffiles are only deleted on purge, not on upgrade or removal.

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