Stephen Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was motivated to try to fix the paper-size problem for everyone > (well, everyone in the USA) when I was helping a friend who was > totally confused about why his LaTeX document wouldn't print.
Yes, that's the really bad point. > It seems to me that having the user configure libpaper, which runs > texconfig-sys and changes files in /etc, is no different from the user > directly running texconfig to change files in /etc. If there is a > policy violation, this patch doesn't make it worse. If the user runs paperconfig and its hooks run texconfig-sys and change files in /etc/texmf, this is not a policy violation. But AFAIK the hooks will also be run by libpaper's postinst - yes, they will, at least if libpaper has just been installed, in other words if I install both TeX and libpaper at the same time. And if that all is supposed to make sense, also tetex-bin's/texlive-bin's postinst needs to call the hook, too: Otherwise a user who installs TeX after libpaper doesn't get dvips configured for the system paper size. > Perhaps we can > separate the two problems of setting default paper size and moving > automatically-edited files from /etc to /var ? Yes, that would be the solution. But since we can't handle all of config.ps as a configuration file (I fear), we need to separate the papersize setting out. Or wait. We could - ship our default config.ps in /usr/share/tetex-bin - in postinst, run the equivalent of the libpaper hook on this file, creating a temporary file which differs from the default one only by the papersize setting - use ucf to install the temporary file in /etc/texmf/dvips/ That way, any other admin changes are handled by ucf just like dpkg would handle conffile changes, but we can always get the papersize from libpaper. And if the libpaper hook also uses ucf, later changes to the default paper size also won't cause bogus conffile prompts. I really hope I haven't missed anything... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
