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Bug#376050: marked as done (please do not claim to "Manage permissions with debconf")

Your message dated Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:17:05 -0700
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and subject line Bug#376050: fixed in tex-common 0.26
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Package: tex-common
Version: 0.24
Severity: normal

Debconf is a program that asks questions of the user. It does not manage
config files or permissions of the TeX font cache and I do not
appreciate text that implies that it does:

 │ If you do not accept, the font cache directory will be world-writable    │  
 │ which is a security risk.  If you accept, you can specify a group name   │  
 │ and all directories under /var/cache/fonts will get ownership            │  
 │ root:<groupname> and permission bits 3775.                               │  
 │                                                                          │  
 │ If you accept, font generation on multi-user machines will only work     │  
 │ for users that have been added to the group you chose - this has to be   │  
 │ done manually by you!  On machines used only by a single user, the       │  
 │ setup will try to automatically detect a suitable group.                 │  
 │                                                                          │  
 │ The default is not to manage permissions with debconf, but this is just  │  
 │ because this is required for automatic installs on Debian package        │  
 │ building machines (buildds).  In almost every other setup, like desktop  │  
 │ machines or multi-user servers, accepting this is strongly recommended!  │  
 │                                                                          │  
 │ Manage the permissions of the TeX font cache with debconf?               │  

Also, the "if you accept" / "if you do not accept" is some of the more
clumsy English I have seen outside of 419 scams. Accept what?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]        0.102      Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.2      Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           2.0012     Update Configuration File: preserv

tex-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii  ucf                           2.0012     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]    0.102          Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.2          Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils               2.16.1         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  dpkg                      1.13.21        package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-15       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.3.2-7        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-2        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.1-5      GCC support library
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.0-3      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4              3.0-16         path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                 1.1.18         Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.8rel-5.1   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler0c2             0.4.5-4        PDF rendering library
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.0-4      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6                4.1.1-5        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                   5.1.0-2        Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.0-6      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   1:1.0.1-5      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.0-4      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                   1:1.0.1-3      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxp6                    1:1.0.0-1      X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii  libxpm4                   1:3.5.4.2-3    X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.0-5      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  mime-support              3.36-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.8-6        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                       4.1.5-1        The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base                3.0-18         Basic library files of teTeX
ii  ucf                       2.0012         Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-4       Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-11     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii  tetex-base                    3.0-18     Basic library files of teTeX
ii  tetex-bin                     3.0-16     The teTeX binary files
ii  ucf                           2.0012     Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information excluded

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Source: tex-common
Source-Version: 0.26

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tex-common, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

tex-common_0.26.dsc
  to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.26.dsc
tex-common_0.26.tar.gz
  to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.26.tar.gz
tex-common_0.26_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/tex-common/tex-common_0.26_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 376050@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tex-common package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:05:47 +0200
Source: tex-common
Binary: tex-common
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.26
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description: 
 tex-common - Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian
Closes: 366805 368411 376050 376632 377378 377388 377664 377945
Changes: 
 tex-common (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Font data are now cached separately for each user, or in /tmp/texfonts
     when there is no writable home directory.  Thus we could get rid of
     the complicated debconf questions related to that issue (there's still
     one note left) (closes: #376050, #366805, #368411).  Many thanks to
     Ralf Stubner for his "braindump".
 .
     This change requires installation of a file in a TEXMF tree; we
     therefore run mktexlsr if it is available. [frank]
 .
   * Debconf Translations: [frank]
     - Updated Czech translation, thanks to Miroslav Kure
       <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>
     - Updated Japanese translation, thank to Kenshi Muto
       <kmuto@debian.org> (closes: #376632, #377945)
     - Updated brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to Felipe Augusto
       van de Wiel (faw) <felipe@cathedrallabs.org>
     - Updated Danish translation, thanks to Claus Hindsgaul
       <claus.hindsgaul@gmail.com> (closes: #377664)
     - Updated German translation, thanks to Helge Kreutzmann
       <debian@helgefjell.de>
     - Updated italian translation, thanks to Luca Monducci
       <luca.mo@tiscali.it> (closes: #377378).
     - Updated french translation, thanks to Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner
       <domelevo@gmail.com> (closes: #377388)
     - Updated Swedish translation, thanks to Daniel Nylander
       <po@danielnylander.se>
     - Updated Lithuanian translation, thanks to KÄ?stutis BiliÅ«nas
       <kebil@kaunas.init.lt>
 .
   * common.functions.in: [florent]
       + change create_tetex_formats() so that fmtutil-sys is run in a
         temporary directory; otherwise, it may use files lying in the
         current directory, which can cause bad surprises. This will close
         #377581 when propagated to the various packages using this function
         in their maintainer scripts.
       + replace `command args ...` with $(command args ...) everywhere in
         the file.
 .
   * Updated Maintainer field to use new mailing list [jdg]
Files: 
 c09f21b95cb63e37535d981bbe8be3b4 756 tex optional tex-common_0.26.dsc
 8fad4473a2aeb17bb64a0e863336a378 305754 tex optional tex-common_0.26.tar.gz
 9bced22994c77f826f08dab42b7134cf 289118 tex optional tex-common_0.26_all.deb

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