Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> I notice in your patch for this bug you left the following section of the
> postinst intact:
>
> if [ ! -f /etc/texmf/jadetex/$fmt.ini ]; then
> warn "/etc/texmf/jadetex/$fmt.ini not found, skipping $fmt memory
> dump"
> warn "If you wish to use JadeTeX, you will have to create the dump
> manually"
> warn "or else purge then reinstall this package to restore default
> configuration."
> return 0
> elif [ ! -f ${FMTCNF} ]; then
> warn "$FMTCNF is missing but should be there; report this bug please"
> return 1
> [...]
> fi
>
> This means that if /etc/texmf/fmt.d/40jadetex.cnf has been removed, which is
> a valid state for a conffile to be in, upgrades of the package will fail.
> Is this the desired behavior?
No, it isn't - I missed that.
> If not, should this "elif" also be removed
> from the script, or should 40jadetex.cnf be restored IFF it's missing (in
> which case, it should not be a conffile)?
I think it should be an ordinary conffile. The update-fmtutil mechanism
that uses the files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/NN<package>.cnf was exactly
developed to allow files to be treated as conffiles.
So the elif part should be removed, too.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank K�ster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich
Debian Developer
