Re: Bug#421367: tetex-base: fails to purge /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin

[giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com>]

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Frank Küster a écrit :
> reassign 421367 dpkg
> retitle 421367 tetex-bin: fails to purge /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin
> 
> Dear dpkg maintainers,
> 
> unless the cause is a hardware problem, this seems to be a corner case
> of buggy conffile handling.
> 
> giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Frank Küster a écrit :
>>> giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Package: tetex-base
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm on SID. I had tetex, now texlive. With the cruft program I found
>>>> that I already have /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin.
>>> And, what's the version of tetex-base and tetex-bin installed? 
>>>
>>> Regards, Frank
>> I purged this two packages when they became transitional packages...so
>> I don't know exactly...
>>
>> In /var/log/dpkg.log :
>> purge tetex-bin 2007-2 2007-2
>> purge tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 3.0.dfsg.3-5
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin is a conffile of tetex-bin (<2007), so it
> should have been purged.  It might be interesting that a couple of
> packages which must have been installed newly during the teTeX->TeXLive
> transition declare "Replaces: tetex-bin (<< 2007)", but none installs a
> file in cron.daily:
> 

So If I understand, I can remove this file...!

Thx for the research!

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Replaces: texlive-extra-utils (<= 2005.dfsg.1-1), tetex-bin (<< 2007)
> 
> Package: texlive-latex-base
> Replaces: texlive-base-bin (<< 2007), tetex-bin (<< 2007)
> 
> (among others) and 
> 
> $ findpkg -b etc/cron.daily | grep texlive
> $
> 
> (the findpkg script lists packages which contain a filename that matches
> the pattern "etc/cron.daily", "-b" restricts to "broken" AKA sid)
> 

I don't have this script...I will search it this afternoon

> Regards, Frank
> 

Regards Guillaume

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