Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:26:13AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> After upgrading tex-common, it should have displayed a text like:
> 
>     echo
>     echo "An essential entry is missing in $file:"
>     echo "No setting of $variable."
>     echo "teTeX will not work without it, you need to fix your configuration"
>     echo "files.  The version of $file that is provided by the package"
>     echo "should be available as ${file}.dpkg-dist"
>     echo
>     echo "Exiting."
> 
> Didn't you see that?

Nope.  It is *very* easy for messages like that to scroll by unseen
during a large dist-upgrade.  Also, policy 3.9.1 mandates pausing for a
response:

     If a package has a vitally important piece of information to pass to
     the user (such as "don't run me as I am, you must edit the following
     configuration files first or you risk your system emitting
     badly-formatted messages"), it should display this in the `config' or
     `postinst' script and prompt the user to hit return to acknowledge the
     message.  Copyright messages do not count as vitally important (they