On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:14:42PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > I'm not convinced - I thought that prompting in maintainer scripts is > heavily discouraged. We could use a critical debconf note, however.
That's an accepted way to do it too. > >> Or did it (i.e. the newer version of tex-common) *not* exit with an > >> error on your system *although* the conffiles were still missing an > >> important entry? > > > > Well, tex-common had configured itself successfully, so I guess that it > > may not have noticed that. > > Then I don't understand the sequence of events. You upgraded tetex, you > got a postinst failure, reported the bug, and after that you upgraded > tex-common (to which version?) and didn't get a message and postinst > failure? Or did you fix the conffiles before upgrading tex-common? I believe that is correct. But I'm not 100% sure in which order I adjusted the conffiles. -- John
