Bug#368411: tex-common keeps asking the question about group on each upgrade

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mon, 22 Mai 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > on each upgrade of the tex-common package, i'm being asked the same
> > question over and over again: "Group that should own the TeX font cache"?
> > It seems that the answer is not properly remembered by the configuration.
> 
> I've noticed that, too.  I thought I had properly catered for the
> renaming:
> 
> # The groupname question has been split up, but it need not be shown again
> db_fget tex-common/groupname seen || true
> if [ "$RET" = true ]; then
>  db_fset tex-common/groupname_single seen true || true
>  db_fset tex-common/groupname_multi seen true || true
> fi
> db_unregister tex-common/groupname || true

Although we should check here for groupname_singe and _multi, too, I
don't believe this is the cause of the problem. More like this

    while true; do
      db_input $cache_debconf_priority tex-common/groupname_$groupname_variant || true
      db_go || true

We should check before whether this question has been seen or not...

So it should be

while true; do
      db_fget tex-common/groupname_$groupname_variant seen || true
      if [ "$RET" = false ] ; then
        db_input $cache_debconf_priority tex-common/groupname_$groupname_variant || true
        db_go || true
      fi

I check in the respective changes.

Best wishes

Norbert

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