Bug#402994: use new libpaper hook to track system paper size

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:

>> Needed documentation: Mention this new mechanism (NEWS.Debian and 'TeX
>> on Debian'). Explain that it might automatically change configuration
>> files and explain the consequences, ie, that people should just accept
>> new upstream versions if they did not make any other changes. Really,
>> really stress that this only configures the default output paper size of
>> the various *programs* but not of the *formats*, and that using things
>> like geometry.sty is the better idea.
>
> A debconf question seems like a very appropriate thing to do rather
> than rely on people reading NEWS.Debian.

I'm not sure.  As we found out, libpaper support didn't work in the old
setup, anyway.  So we are not dropping any functionality if we just add
the hook and the file in /etc/default, setting the variable to "no
action".  We are just adding the possibility to have it done with
libpaper.  Why would that warrant a debconf question?  Or am I missing
something? 

Regards, Frank



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