debconf, tex-common and the management of ls-R and .cnf files

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi all!

To remind us: We should move the config.in from tetex-bin to tex-common.
(and probably the template file, too).

I have taken a look into the config.in file: It consists of two things:

The second could be taken as is:
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# ls-R handling (taken from old config script, copyright?)
db_input low tetex-bin/lsr-perms || true
db_go

db_get tetex-bin/lsr-perms
if [ x"$RET" = x"true" ]; then
    db_beginblock
    db_input low tetex-bin/groupname || true
    db_input low tetex-bin/groupperm || true
    db_input low tetex-bin/userperm || true
    db_endblock
fi

db_go
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Maybe we should change the tetex-bin to tex-common, too.


The first part is a bit complicated:
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# suggest a user to rename old cnf files (copyright Atsuhito?)
# (upgrade from woody, keep for etch?)
if [ -d /etc/texmf/texmf.d ]; then
    if ls /etc/texmf/texmf.d 2> /dev/null | egrep -vq '(\.cnf|\.dpkg-.*|~)$'; then
        db_input medium tetex-bin/cnf_name || true
        db_go || true
    fi
fi
----------------------

Here I am not sure wether we can take it as is.

How do we proceed?

Best wishes

Norbert

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