On Tue, 29 May 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > >> To me, the solution is to resurrect these conffiles without > >> prompting, because prompting doesn't make sense if the only working > >> answer is "yes". > > > > Can you test to see if the system is working without the conffiles? > > There are about 8 RC bug reports which show quite clearly that it > doesn't. There's no sense in testing that in the maintainer script. If > a local admin hacked the system so much that it keeps on working without > them, I frankly don't care - it's no longer a Debian TeX Live system.
My point was that in such a system you'd likely end up breaking it by reinstalling the conffiles; if such a test is relatively easy, then it'd be worth it. If not, then a NEWS.Debian entry on how to return to the previous configuration is probably good enough for such an admin. Don Armstrong -- I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system to be refuted by experience. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ �6 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu