Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fre, 25 Mai 2007, Frank Küster wrote: >> That sounds reasonable, except that it might be better to use debconf >> for this. Moreover, for the really mandatory files, like >> pdftexconfig.tex and modes.mf, we should not just leave it to the user >> and continue. Instead we should either forcibly recreate the file and >> notify the user, or stop right here with a decent debconf error message. > > What about NOT doing a "preserving delete" for *any* file there, and add > to the NEWS.Debian that "If you have deleted that file, please re-delete > it!". > > Or re-instantiate all config files, ie do not delete any but > echo/debconf a warning to re-delete it. > > The former would have a trivial and quick implementation.
With a version check, so that it only happens once, I think it's the way to go. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
