Re: what about tetex-extra.preinst
On 31.03.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> the file debian/tetex-extra.preinst in the tetex-base sources is removed
> in the clean target of debian/rules with the comment:
>
> # this was obsolete and even harmful.
> -rm -f debian/tetex-extra.preinst
>
> However, in the CVS repository it is not deleted (i.e., moved to
> the attic). On the one hand, this is annoying, because CVS always
> complains the file is missing in my working copy. On the other
> hand, it might even cause some trouble (e.g. if somebody checks out
> from CVS and does "fakeroot debian/rules binary" by hand).
>
AFAICS it removes:
- some obsolete files/dirs, which doesn't exist on a modern system
(/usr/lib/texmf)
- are soft links
- or belong to other packages and so mustn't be removed.
> Any reasons why I shouldn't cvs-remove the file?
>
No, I don't see some.
Further:
drachi:[debian] >rgrep tetex-preinst.m4 *
CVS/Entries:/tetex-preinst.m4/1.1/Tue Feb 19 00:50:28 2002//
rules:# m4 -DTETEX_BASE debian/tetex-preinst.m4 > debian/preinst
rules:# m4 debian/tetex-preinst.m4 > debian/tetex-extra.preinst
drachi:[debian] >rgrep m4 *
CVS/Entries:/tetex-preinst.m4/1.1/Tue Feb 19 00:50:28 2002//
changelog: * move Build-Depends to Build-Depends-Indep in right place and add m4
control:Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), po-debconf, m4, sharutils
rules:# m4 -DTETEX_BASE debian/tetex-preinst.m4 > debian/preinst
rules:# m4 debian/tetex-preinst.m4 > debian/tetex-extra.preinst
Any good reason to keep a B-D on m4 out there?
H.
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