Bug#426749: texlive-base-bin: no quick removal

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

clone 426749 -1
reassign -1 texlive-common
retitle -1 leftover configuration files after switch from teTeX
reassign 426749 texlive-base
merge 426749 375922 
thanks

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-7
> Severity: wishlist
>
> One notices that

Please also read the thread referenced in the last mail to the merged
bug.  

> dpkg - warning: while removing texlive-base-bin, directory
> `/etc/texmf/dvips' not empty so not removed.
>
>   /etc/texmf/dvips:
>   total used in directory 71 available 48523
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root  3072 2007-05-30 14:40 .
>   drwxr-xr-x 12 root  1024 2007-05-30 14:40 ..
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root 12599 2002-08-09 08:13 arphic.map
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root    12 1998-02-16 04:43 config.antt.dpkg-old
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root   181 1999-04-17 02:34 config.mirr.dpkg-old
>   -rw-r--r--  1 root 51065 2005-05-16 03:10 uhc-base.map

Probably wontfix (except uhc-base.map which comes from
hlatex-fonts-base).  These are extremely old files (not in stable and
probably oldstable), and our code in the stable tetex-base package to
remove extremely old files in /etc just has lead to a RC bug in sid.
I'm not planning to introduce more time bombs of that sort.

>   -rw------- 1 root 2789 2005-11-03 18:28 00updmap.cfg.dpkg-old
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root   17 2005-05-16 03:10 10uhc-base.cfg
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1314 2005-10-19 22:11 20tetex-extra.cfg

Except the uhc stuff, that's something we should look at (cloning and
reassigning to texlive-common)

>   /etc/texmf/texmf.d:
>   total used in directory 5 available 48710
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 2007-05-30 14:48 .
>   drwxr-xr-x 9 root 1024 2007-05-30 14:48 ..
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2122 2005-07-26 17:47 85Misc.cnf.dpkg-old

This one should be handled, too.

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