Re: texlive-base: file remnant in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
Hi
some short remarks here
On Mo, 07 Jun 2010, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> After updating texlive-base there remains a useless file in the directory
> /etc/texmf/fmt.d/. The file name is "10texlive-base.cnfpre-edit", produced by
> the preinst-script. I say useless, since only files with the ending .cnf are
> considered by the system.
Yes, but it was there before and maybe has been changed during the installation
to guarantee that the upgrade can succeed at all. Deleting this file
afterwards is not a good idea, so in some sense it is a security
if the maintainer has changed the file himself.
On Sa, 12 Jun 2010, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-base.preinst beginning with the line
Yes, it is to make sure that no duplicate lines are present in fmtutil.cnf
which happend due to an upgrade path from oldstable, see #557091
for details.
I'm not sure what we should one do now:
- let the bug report rot away: I don't see the need to remove a conf file
which we have changed
- make the code more intelligent and do not keep the backup in case there
were no changes necessary
- remove the backup code at all (note that it is there only for people
who upgraded from oldstable to stable to unstable a t a certain point,
at least AFAIR)
Best wishes
Norbert
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