Question about the policy

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

Hi Florent, hi all,

In section 4.1.1 of the Policy one can read:

<snip>
If a package is removed, but not purged, its map files will stay in
subdirectories of /etc/texmf, but the actual font files below
/usr/share/texmf are removed, and the font is unusable. Therefore it
must make sure that the updmap configuration file in
/etc/texmf/updmap.d is ignored when the package is in this state.
This can be achieved by putting the "magic comment"

# -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_-

in the file, and installing a file in
/var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/ with the name package.list and the
content

10foo
12bar

if the packages installs the files 10foo.cfg and 12bar.cfg in
/etc/texmf/updmap.d. When the package is removed, but not purged,
this file will be removed, thus disabling the updmap configuration
files.
<snap>

Anybody has a clue, why the file, which determines if the map file
should be read or not during generating updmap.cfg, should got into
/var instead of /usr/share?

Regards,
  Hilmar
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