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

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:13:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> No, it isn't.  Everything is designed from the point of view of an
> upgrade, and in this case "preserving local changes" of course must
> include *not* to remove an unused conffile.  It might contain important
> work of the local administrator.  

Thanks for the explanation but I had in mind only unchanged conffiles
(unchanged by the local administrator).  At present when I have
changed some conffile, dpkg asks me whether to replace it with a new
version.  And when the conffile is unchanged dpkg replaces it without
asking.  The problem is that dpkg does this only when the contents of
the file changes and not when the file does not exist in the new
package version any more.  In my opinion the proper behaviour of dpkg
is as follows:

IF conffile does not exist any more THEN
   IF the conffile is changed by local admin THEN
      ask what to do: remove, preserve or move/rename
   ELSE
      remove the file
   END
END

Anton Zinoviev