On Monday, April 01, 2013 04:56:01 PM Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > >> Preconfiguring packages . > > >> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gm-remove_person.1.gz', which > > >> is > > >> also in package gnumed-client 1.3.1-1quantal > > > > > > I found out it is shipped in both tarballs , gnumed-client and > > > gnumed-server. I guess dpkg does not like this. > > > > > > > > > The file could either be overwritten > > > > Debian won't do that. > > > > > or it needs to be removed from one of the tarballs I guess. > > > > > > Certainly not from the tarballs but rather from one of the packages. > > > > Or, rather, moved to package gnumed-doc. > > > > > What do you prefer ? > > Well, as far as gm-remove_person.1.gz goes -doc would be just fine. That > doesn't solve the question of what to do with /usr/bin/gm-remove_person > itself, though. > > There's two "proper" answers to that: > > 1) Anything not -server is -client, so if people want to be able to > access the GNUmed database (say, removing a person) w/o resorting to > PostgreSQL tools (psql) they would need to install some sort of -client > package. However, the client pulls in LOADS of LaTeX which just isn't > fair on server machines just because the admin wants a local > gm-remove_person. > > 2) Create a -tools which would include gm-remove_person(.1.gz). We've got > precious few other things that would go in there, however, so whether that's > worth the effort ... >
It is tools then. Please spell out what you would like to see in there and I will give it a shot. Sebastian > Karsten
