Bug#269828: tetex-base: Provide script to purge old map files
Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> schrieb:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2b-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> README.Debian.gz, in the second major section, indicates there are a
> bunch of map files that are no longer used, but that Debian policy
> prohibits removing them.
>
> Could you provide a script that removes them, for those who wish too?
You can use /usr/share/doc/tetex-base/remove-oldmaps. But a pointer to
it in tetex-base's README.Debian is missing.
> First, should a thorough removal also modify
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-{base,extra}.conffiles? If so, how?
Which modifications do you mean? The old conffiles are yet removed from
that file, if they are no longer in the deb.
> Second, has the change actually made all .map, .cfg, and .qf files in
> the directory, or perhaps the directory itself, obsolete?
No, the directory is still in the search path, and is still needed for
files in tetex-base (config.*) and other packages.
> What is the
> change that obsoletes them, and is it Debian specific?
We defined VARTEXMF and included it in TEXMF. This functionality was
always planned for in teTeX 2.0.2, but the fact that we use it now is
Debian-specific.
Do you agree that we can close this bug once remove-oldmaps is
mentionend in the documentation, or do you think there's more to do?
Regards
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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