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

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

clone 330078 -1
reassign -1 dpkg
retitle -1 dpkg: should offer to delete conffiles which do not exist in upgraded package
thanks

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:34:56PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 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

Cloning this as a bug against dpkg: this is clearly beyond the domain
of the tetex packages themselves.

   Julian