(fwd) Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common

>From debian-tetex-maint which most people might stopped reading ...

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> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42 <at> web.de>
> Subject: Re: dvips35.map disappearing from ls-R after force-purge-then-reinstall of tex-common
> To: debian-tetex-maint <at> lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:34:40 +0100
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> On 26.06.06 Florent Rougon (f.rougon <at> free.fr) wrote:
> > Frank Küster <frank <at> debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm goinf through some old E-Mails I didn't have the time to read
> yet.
> 
> > > Isn't the lesson that no static files should be in /var/lib/texmf/?  We
> > > could just put the symlink into TEXMFDIST/web2c.
> > 
> > Yes, I think so. I'd say:
> > 
> >   1. When several packages share a directory for storing generated files
> >      (not registered with dpkg), you're in trouble for the purge
> >      procedure. Especially when these packages are maintained by
> >      different people.
> > 
> >   2. In this particular case, we would be safe if:
> > 
> >        a) Every package that uses /var/lib/texmf/ depended on
> >           tex-common (so that tex-common can wipe out the directory when
> >           purged).
> > 
> >        b) Every non-optional file stored in /var/lib/texmf/ was
> >           regenerated at configure time by the responsible package (so
> >           that the sequence I gave in my previous mail doesn't cause any
> >           file loss under /var/lib/texmf/).
> > 
> > As far as the pool files are concerned, this is static stuff,
> > right? So, they are in the wrong TEXMF tree, IMHO. As for mfw.base,
> > I don't know its purpose, so I cannot comment.
> > 
> I don't find the statement above in the "The Debian TEX sub-policy".
> Isn't it worth to be put into it?
> 
> H.
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Best wishes

Norbert

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