Bug#269732: tetex-bin: Debconf-note confusing and does not work on install (but on dpkg-reconfigure)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> While upgrading, I got a debconf note asking me about "language.dat".
> There is one sentence which I find unclear (I am not a native speaker,
> so excuse if this is perfectly fine english):
>
> If you do not choose this, we will enable one nearly all available
> patterns.

Same as bug #268764, fixed in unstable.

> I chose "yes" because I wanted to be asked, but I did not get asked.

This is strange. Next time you encounter such behaviour, please run
"debconf-show $packagename" before doing the dpkg-reconfigure, this
would help much, but the information is changed now.

> Btw. IIRC you keep your debconf-files in a publicly accessible CVS? If
> you include the adress in your reply, I'll update it for german for
> the next upload.

Ja, gerne. 

http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot=tetex

Aber bitte warte damit, bis auf meine Mail 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2004/08/msg00001.html

eine Antwort gekommen ist (oder wir beschlossen haben, nicht zu warten).

>
> The version noted below is wrong, becaus I type it as I upgrade.

> ii  libkpathsea3           2.0.2-15          path search library for teTeX (run
[...]
> ii  tetex-base             2.0.2-9           Basic library files of teTeX

So which versions are correct, then? If it is in fact version 2.0.2-20,
then the fact that you didn't see the language choices until
dpkg-reconfigure is not surprising.

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