Bug#267664: Bug#263715: fmtutil.cnf still not found in tetex-bin 2.0.2-18
Mauricio Fuentes Montero <mfuentes@alumnos.utalca.cl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:07, Frank Küster wrote:
> [...]
>> I forgot to ask you, Mauricio, about the result of
>>
>> ls /etc/texmf/texmf.d/
>>
>> If there are any files inside besides
>>
>> 05TeXMF.cnf 45TeXinputs.cnf 65BibTeX.cnf 85Misc.cnf 95NonPath.cnf
>> 15Plain.cnf 55Fonts.cnf 75DviPS.cnf 90TeXDoc.cnf 96JadeTeX.cnf
>>
>> please send us those files.
>>
> attached texmf.d.tar.bz2
Thank you. This shows that there were no local files in the
directory. And this again means that my previous reasoning about what
happened is correct (you, Mauricio, must have answered a dpkg question
other than we would have liked it).
However, it is still a bug in our package, see Policy E.2:
,----
| if the format of the file changes from one version to the next, you
| will have to arrange for the postinst script to do something sensible
| - usually this will mean editing the installed configuration file to
| remove the problem or change the syntax. You will have to do this very
| carefully, since the user may have changed the file, perhaps to fix
| the very problem that your script is trying to deal with - you will
| have to detect these situations and deal with them correctly.
`----
I'll have a look at it.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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