Bug#612924: [stable] Possible fix for possible RC bug
Dear stable release managers,
we have a bug report against our package texlive-base in stable that
might be worth fixing in squeeze, or not. Therefore I am asking your
opinion.
There is buggy code in the preinst script that will fail each time it is
called, leading to the preinst failing, hence the upgrade of the TeX
system from anything older than stable to stable (or testing/sid, no
changes yet). This means the bug is RC, and since it is easy to fix
(simply drop one line that calls the buggy code, because it is not in
fact needed) we are considering fixing it in stable.
However:
The buggy code is in a conditional, and it we are unsure how often it
will be triggered. The bug was once intended to clean up after a really
bad brown paper bag bug in sid, during the lenny release cycle. This
means that nowadays, no system should meet the conditional unless it
used sid at the time and has not been upgraded since then. It should.
However, it doesn't. At least we do get bug reports. We got them when
lenny became stable, and again we got them when squeeze got stable. And
of course all the time people claimed that they never used sid TeX
packages. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612924.
The last report was early in March
What do you think - should we prepare an upload to stable?
The patch would look like this:
# Cleanup after Bug #420390 for sid users
resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/metafont/misc/modes.mf texlive-base "$1" "$2"
-resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex texlive-base "$1" "$2"
+#resurrect_conffile_sid /etc/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex texlive-base "$1" "$2"
plus the usual changelog etc.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Vorstand B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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