Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:14:42PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> I'm not convinced - I thought that prompting in maintainer scripts is
> heavily discouraged. We could use a critical debconf note, however.
That's an accepted way to do it too.
> >> Or did it (i.e. the newer version of tex-common) *not* exit with an
> >> error on your system *although* the conffiles were still missing an
> >> important entry?
> >
> > Well, tex-common had configured itself successfully, so I guess that it
> > may not have noticed that.
>
> Then I don't understand the sequence of events. You upgraded tetex, you
> got a postinst failure, reported the bug, and after that you upgraded
> tex-common (to which version?) and didn't get a message and postinst
> failure? Or did you fix the conffiles before upgrading tex-common?
I believe that is correct. But I'm not 100% sure in which order I
adjusted the conffiles.
-- John
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