Package: tetex-bin Version: 2.0.2-20 Severity: wishlist The policy states that modifications to files under /etc must be preserved. It is considered bad practice to rely on the administrator to read notes in comments, discouraging the direct editing of files to work around the requirement, such as found in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf: $ head -4 /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf %%% This file is automatically generated by update-texmf % % PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY. It is meant to be generated from % files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/. As I cannot satisfactorily argue that this is a policy violation, I am merely filing a wishlist bug. Please take one of the following two steps: (a) implement a means to preserve changes made to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf directly (probably not trivial). (b) make update-texmf write to /var/lib/texmf/texmf.cnf and use a symlink (or modification to the code) to refer to this file instead of the current one under /etc. Thank you very much, -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 Versions of packages postfix depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.10 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-17 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii netbase 4.18 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- debconf information excluded -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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