Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past week I've learned that local admins are allowed to remove > TeX-related configuration files in /etc/texmf/ and that therefore tetex > and texlive packages do not install "missing" configuration files on > upgrades.
This is nothing TeX-specific, it's just Debian policy. Any package which restores removed configuration files is buggy, or it should have prompted the user if it cannot be configured without the file. > When I corrected this by installing libkpathsea, I noticed this message: > Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-30) ... > Not replacing deleted config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf > > Apparently the configuration script decided that this was an upgrade > instead of a new install, which is not correct. I installed tetex-bin > from scratch, so the config file _should_ have been installed, even if > configuring the package failed at first. This looks like a bug, indeed. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
