Bug#388972: tetex-bin: [annoying_notes] Abuse of debconf note(s)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:

> Please consider one of the following options:
>
> - move the text of the debconf note to the README.Debian file. The drawback
>   is that the text will not be translatable anymore, which will be worked
>   in the future. However, given that your note is very rarely displayed,
>   this is indeed not a very strong drawback
>
> - move the text to NEWS.Debian. This option should however rather be
>   reserved for future texts of the same kind as the contents of this file
>   is only displayed when users upgrade the package
>
> - change the template type to "error" in case this note is meant to be
>   displayed only in some cases when a problem shows up during execution of
>   the maintainer's scripts. Please check debconf-devel(7) for details
>
> - raise the priority to "high". This should be the last option to consider.
>   It should be used only in cases where you judge that the information you
>   display is VITAL for users of your package and that one could NOT USE IT
>   if not reading the note.
>
[...]
>
> Template(s) identified in your package:
>
>   tetex-bin -- config:44 tetex-bin/cnf_name

This is called as follows:

,----
| # suggest a user to rename old cnf files (copyright Atsuhito?)
| # (upgrade from woody, keep for etch?)
| if [ -d /etc/texmf/texmf.d ]; then
|     if ls /etc/texmf/texmf.d 2> /dev/null | egrep -vq '(\.cnf|\.dpkg-.*|~)$'; then
|         db_input medium tetex-bin/cnf_name || true
|         db_go || true
|     fi
| fi
`----

As you can see, I already questioned whether this is still needed for
etch.  I have added a remark to README.Debian.sgml and removed it from
the config script.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)