Bug#425781: texlive-base: Upgrade failes
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Fre, 25 Mai 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> That sounds reasonable, except that it might be better to use debconf
>> for this. Moreover, for the really mandatory files, like
>> pdftexconfig.tex and modes.mf, we should not just leave it to the user
>> and continue. Instead we should either forcibly recreate the file and
>> notify the user, or stop right here with a decent debconf error message.
>
> What about NOT doing a "preserving delete" for *any* file there, and add
> to the NEWS.Debian that "If you have deleted that file, please re-delete
> it!".
>
> Or re-instantiate all config files, ie do not delete any but
> echo/debconf a warning to re-delete it.
>
> The former would have a trivial and quick implementation.
With a version check, so that it only happens once, I think it's the way
to go.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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