Bug#688382: texlive-base: missing conffiles after squeeze->wheezy upgrade

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On So, 30 Sep 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I'd really like to see this fixed. There are 171 recursive rdepends of
> texlive-base (according to piuparts-report for squeeze2wheezy) that
> cannot be tested with piuparts because of this bug.
> 
> If there is a patch to be tested, I can help.
> 


The strange things is that there is code in it to do that, look into
texlive-base.postinst I see:

for file in $libpaper_files ; do
  if [ -r $file ] ; then
    if ucf_is_changed $file ; then
	... do something...
    fi
    rm $file
    rm some other files
  fi
  ucf --purge $file
  if test -x "`which ucfr`" ; then
    ucfr --purge texlive-base $file
  fi
done

So from my understanding that means that everything is also purged
from the dpkg conffile database ...

Can you do some tests where the postinst is run with set -x?

I don't see for now why this should not working.

Best wishes

Norbert
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