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Bug#330078: latex points to etex, not to tex



Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> Do you think that this bug is due to misbehaviour of dpkg?  True,
> 01tetex.cnf is a configuration file, but I hadn't edited it so it had
> to be removed during the downgrading.

No, dpkg won't remove unused configuration files upon upgrading, and it
won't do so upon downgrading, either.  For the upgrading case, the
maintainer scripts has to take care - rename the file in preinst, take
over settings, moving out of the way or whatever.  For the downgrading
case, we don't provide any support.

dpkg will *only* remove a file when the package is purged.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer




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