Bug#262950: marked as done (configuration files should be moved to /etc)
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From: Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
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Subject: configuration files should be moved to /etc
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Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20000804-7
Severity: normal
The tetex-base package contains several files, which are
configuration files, but which are not installed under /etc.
This violates section 11.7.2 of the debian policy.
For example /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/geometry.cfg
contains the lines
%% You can uncomment and edit the line below to set default options.
%%\ExecuteOptions{a4paper,dvips}
so it seems that this is intended to be a configuration file.
I think the same problem may apply to other files, too.
For example the files
/usr/share/texmf/etex/plain/config/language.def
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/seminar.con
/usr/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg
seem to be candidates.
Jochen
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux automatix 2.2.18 #1 Fri Feb 9 14:07:14 CET 2001 i686
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.8.3.1 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii perl-base [perl5-base] 5.6.0-21 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii texinfo 4.0-5 Documentation system for on-line i
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Subject: Re: #262950: configuration files should be moved to /etc
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Hi,=20
nearly 5 years ago you reported this bug against the Debian package
tetex-base. It has been resolved step-by-step by moving appropriate
files to /etc (and sometimes back), but now it will be closed because we
have made a large step in the other direction. The TeX Policy (draft)
now states:
,----
| 4.1. Configuration files
| ------------------------
|=20
| In a TeX system, in principle every TeX input file can be changed to
| change the behavior of the system, and thus be regarded as a
| configuration file. To prevent inflation of configuration files,
| packages should not install any TeX input files as conffiles or
| configuration files. Instead, they should create an empty directory
| below `/etc/texmf/tex' and advice users which files are likely places
| for configuration. It is up to the local admin or individual user to
| place changed copies in <TEXMFSYSCONFIG> or <TEXMFCONFIG>,
| respectively.
|=20
| Note that `/etc/texmf/' is a usual TDS tree. [...]
`----
Kind regards,
Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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