Bug#334613: [SPAM?]: Bug#334613: tetex-bin: same problem when upgrade to 3.0.10
On 10.11.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > If the user now refuses to replace the local version by that one
> > from the maint (which is the default) fmtutil now starts creating
> > formats with the old configuration. ---> *bamm*
>
> That's how it goes, live is hard, but because of ucf it will only
> happen if the user *has* changed the conffile. If you refuse to
> accept new maintainer's versions, or install noninteractively, you
> should investigate the conffiles before filing a bug.
>
Eddie: do you agree, that this is not really a bug?
> > If you never touched 00tetex.cnf simply overwriting 01tetex.cnf by
> > 01tetex.cnf.dpkg-dist should fix the problem.
>
> If he'd never touched 00tetex.cnf, ucf would know the old version and
> not ask at all, but simply overwrite. Except if the file already
> existed in woody; we don't have an old md5sum for woody versions.
>
Therefore I could not reproduce that bug during upgrade using a
non-changed 00tetex.cnf... Sorry forgot about ucf.
H.
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