Re: handling of config files
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Let's check the config files we want to handle:
> /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config
> /etc/texmf/dvips/config/*
> /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults
> all these are just simple take overs from texlive 2005 in
> /etc/texmf/texlive
> so we could *copy* them to the new location (if changed), echo
> a warning that is has changed and that debconf will ask ...
> then dpkg will ask the usual changed questions
... and we will get bug reports "bogus conffile prompt".
> /etc/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg
> this needs some magic, as usual, haven't thought about it
>
> Of course the error unwind procedure has to be changed, too, but in
> general I would prefer such an approach.
I don't think that we will be able to implement a policy-clean approach
without bogus conffile prompts with dpkg only. Since we already depend
no ucf, anyway, why not use that?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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