Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> > For example, releasing etch with a 'initex' that gives out >> > a warning that 'initex is deprecated, use tex -ini instead' >> > won't hurt. > >> But your postinst scripts will fail anyway.... > > It's not only postinst scripts that will use initex. > initex is a well-known interface for generating > dumps with tex.
Many obsolete things are well-known. It's a good idea to provide an initex script that will echo "please use tex --ini", but Debian packages will still have to switch to the new (as of 1990 or so) ways. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
