(fwd) Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common
>From debian-tetex-maint which most people might stopped reading ...
----- Forwarded message from Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> -----
> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common
> To: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:34:40 +0100
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> On 26.06.06 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
> > Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm goinf through some old E-Mails I didn't have the time to read
> yet.
>
> > > Isn't the lesson that no static files should be in /var/lib/texmf/? We
> > > could just put the symlink into TEXMFDIST/web2c.
> >
> > Yes, I think so. I'd say:
> >
> > 1. When several packages share a directory for storing generated files
> > (not registered with dpkg), you're in trouble for the purge
> > procedure. Especially when these packages are maintained by
> > different people.
> >
> > 2. In this particular case, we would be safe if:
> >
> > a) Every package that uses /var/lib/texmf/ depended on
> > tex-common (so that tex-common can wipe out the directory when
> > purged).
> >
> > b) Every non-optional file stored in /var/lib/texmf/ was
> > regenerated at configure time by the responsible package (so
> > that the sequence I gave in my previous mail doesn't cause any
> > file loss under /var/lib/texmf/).
> >
> > As far as the pool files are concerned, this is static stuff,
> > right? So, they are in the wrong TEXMF tree, IMHO. As for mfw.base,
> > I don't know its purpose, so I cannot comment.
> >
> I don't find the statement above in the "The Debian TEX sub-policy".
> Isn't it worth to be put into it?
>
> H.
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