Bug#420390: Purging tetex transition packages removes texlive configuration files

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>> The basic problem is that tetex-base's postrm (from etch, upon purge)
>> does some cleanup of files which were in /etc/texmf in woody and sarge
>> and are useless now.  But as it turns out, some have now been
>> resurrected and are of vital importance in lenny.
>
> Aehmmm. Damned. This could be an explanation.

At least for config.ps and pdftexconfig.tex it *is* the explanation, I
have reproduced it: Install tetex-bin in etch, upgrade to sid, verify
the files are still there.  Purge tetex-bin, no change; purge
tetex-base, blown away.

>> I think the solution would be to create a package tetex-base_2007-* from
>> texlive-base-bin and give it a sane postrm - after that it can safely be
>> purged. 
>
> But this will not solve the problem if someone upgrades from etch and at
> the same time of installation texlive* purges the tetex packages. Am I
> right? 

If he does it in the UI, yes, it won't help.  We could ask the stable
release managers to allow such a change in.

Answers to the rest of the mail later.

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