On 24.01.05 Frank Küster (fr...@kuesterei.ch) wrote: Hi Frank,
That bug is 5 years old. > severity 291545 normal > retitle 291545 upgrade of files in texmf.d shows diff twice (plain ucf and > update-texmf) > stop > > Margarita Manterola <ma...@marga.com.ar> schrieb: > > > Now, the fact is that it asked me the same question twice (now that the > > mistery is solved, I have the sensation that I remember looking at the diff > > and thinking "isn't this the same diff I saw before?"), therefore causing > > my making the mistake of not accepting it twice. > > > > Is there a way to prevent this? Some way of "preseeding" update-texmf so > > that it doesn't happen? > > Actually, I fear it is not possible. We *could* make things easy and > straightforward: If we would put the generated texmf.cnf file into > /var/lib/texmf, then only the files in texmf.d would be configuration > files, and only there could a question come. By the way, the reason for > all this is to enable other packages to add their own configuration to > texmf.cnf, like e.g. jadetex does. > > However, the problem with this is that texmf.cnf is known as "the" > configuration file for teTeX, it is referenced in many README files or > tutorials, and, to make things worse, since it must always be possible > for TeX to find it, users can find it with the same means: > > kpsewhich --format='web2c files' texmf.cnf > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > > (actually you can use it without the --format stuff). This is why we > have chosen to keept texmf.cnf in /etc/texmf, as a configuration file - > people would have edited anyway. But this makes the double checking > necessary. > > > Now, this bug was not a bug, but a human's (namely, me) fault, yet I feel > > that something should be done to prevent this from happening again, don't > > you think? > > Yes, it would be good. I'll think it over, and keep the bug open under a > different title, and with lower severity. > Are you still willing to work on this or should we simply close it, in the hope that TL is not affected? H. -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
