Bug#435660: latex-cjk-chinese: installing/upgrading/removing package fails
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Don, 02 Aug 2007, Danai SAE-HAN =?UTF-8?Q?(=E9=9F=93=E9=81=94=E8=80=90) ?= wrote:
>> My goodness, so the purge doesn't work because it can't find pdftexconfig
>> anymore. I'll see if this bug has already been fixed by a more recent Debian
>> TexLive version, or if anything has changed recently.
>
> I am not up2date with respect to this bug, but it IS is bug in
> texlive-base-bin and texlive-base which can lead to this situation. We
> are preparing an upload that will fix this.
Hm, but the fix we plan won't be run in the postinst scripts of
arbitrary packages...
Still I guess it doesn't make sense to add a general "resurrect conffile
API". This should really be a problem of the lenny release cycle, not
of the release (at least if we get etch.1 out this decade).
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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