Re: Bug#421367: tetex-base: fails to purge /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

reassign 421367 dpkg
retitle 421367 tetex-bin: fails to purge /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin

Dear dpkg maintainers,

unless the cause is a hardware problem, this seems to be a corner case
of buggy conffile handling.

giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank Küster a écrit :
>> giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Package: tetex-base
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm on SID. I had tetex, now texlive. With the cruft program I found
>>> that I already have /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin.
>>
>> And, what's the version of tetex-base and tetex-bin installed? 
>>
>> Regards, Frank
> I purged this two packages when they became transitional packages...so
> I don't know exactly...
>
> In /var/log/dpkg.log :
> purge tetex-bin 2007-2 2007-2
> purge tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 3.0.dfsg.3-5

/etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin is a conffile of tetex-bin (<2007), so it
should have been purged.  It might be interesting that a couple of
packages which must have been installed newly during the teTeX->TeXLive
transition declare "Replaces: tetex-bin (<< 2007)", but none installs a
file in cron.daily:

Package: texlive-base-bin
Replaces: texlive-extra-utils (<= 2005.dfsg.1-1), tetex-bin (<< 2007)

Package: texlive-latex-base
Replaces: texlive-base-bin (<< 2007), tetex-bin (<< 2007)

(among others) and 

$ findpkg -b etc/cron.daily | grep texlive
$

(the findpkg script lists packages which contain a filename that matches
the pattern "etc/cron.daily", "-b" restricts to "broken" AKA sid)

Regards, Frank

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