Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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;
No, the trick would be to hack formats or executables to simply ignore those files - reinstalling them won't have any effect. > 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. We'll do that; the test would be quite hard, because there are tons of possibilities to misconfigure your system such that the error looks quite similar to a missing file. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)