Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The basic problem is that tetex-base's postrm (from etch, upon purge) >> does some cleanup of files which were in /etc/texmf in woody and sarge >> and are useless now. But as it turns out, some have now been >> resurrected and are of vital importance in lenny. > > Aehmmm. Damned. This could be an explanation.
At least for config.ps and pdftexconfig.tex it *is* the explanation, I have reproduced it: Install tetex-bin in etch, upgrade to sid, verify the files are still there. Purge tetex-bin, no change; purge tetex-base, blown away. >> I think the solution would be to create a package tetex-base_2007-* from >> texlive-base-bin and give it a sane postrm - after that it can safely be >> purged. > > But this will not solve the problem if someone upgrades from etch and at > the same time of installation texlive* purges the tetex packages. Am I > right? If he does it in the UI, yes, it won't help. We could ask the stable release managers to allow such a change in. Answers to the rest of the mail later. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
