Bug#454344: Bug#454324: texlive-base-bin -- Doesn't purge all files after piuparts Install+Upgrade+Purge test
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Mi, 05 Dez 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > - missing: should we take over fmt.d/10texlive-base-bin.cnf? ...
>> >
>> > I guess we should simple add code to the postinst script to remove it?
>>
>> Why shouldn't we instead take it over? If someone has changed some of
>> the formats, they expect that the change persists.
>
> No idea what were the pros and cons I had in mind at that time. Probably
> I was too lazy, and then I thought that it was only an
> unstable->unstable thing and will not hit etch->lenny, but now that I
> think about it could well be that we have to have some transition code.
Unfortunately, that file exists in etch. Therefore I think we should do
something about transitioning settings.
>> I'm not sure, but I thought that these files are kept only if they have
>> been changed. So their purpose would be to provide the user a way to
>> migrate their old changes to teTeX's formats to the new TeXLive
>> configuration files, and they should not be removed in the postinst.
>
> We can leave them hang around, but we certainly cannot write some code
> to transfer the old formats as changed to ones for texlive, at least I
> will and wont write this code, as it spans several texlive packages.
Those are configuration files from a different package and a different
TeX system. I even doubt whether it wouldn't be a bug to actually force
the transfer of changes. Still the information in the locally changed
files will be interesting to the local admin.
Therefore I think we should keep the file when we install texlive, but
purge it when it is purged (i.e. in postrm purge).
> PS: How are you doing in your job?
Oh, fine: Lot's of work to do, but very much fun, nice colleagues, and
I'm actually able to change things to the better. Since last week, I
even have a car, so that the daily trip from home to work and back
doesn't take me three hours, but only one. So there's hope that I'll be
able to develop some social life here, and some Debian and/or TeX
activity. Just not before Christmas, in a flat which is still only
half (or maybe two-third) set up.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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