Bug#420139: Drop copies of conffiles in TEXMFDIST (was: Issues with and after upgrade to texlive)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2007-5
Severity: important

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> $ ls /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
>> ls: /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex: No such file or 
>> directory
>
> And this makes it even more strange, because our config file shifting
> did never touch this file, since it was NO config file in texlive 2005.
>
> So it should have been installed with all the other (new) config files
> as usual.
>
> Who/What could have removed these two files?

I do not know.  But I think this is one more reason why we should *not*
ship copies of configuration files in TEXMFDIST, where they will happily
be picked up if the conffile is removed.

- It deprives the local admin of the possibility to remove a conf(ig)file

- In this case, it hides a misconfiguration; format generation during
  configuration of texlive-base-bin (or at least tl-latex-base) should
  not have succeeded in the first place

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