Bug#320074: old config files in /etc
Frank Küster wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>> /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config
>
> This is still accessible:
>
> $ ll /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2005-07-26 11:58 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config ->
> /etc/texmf/dvipdfm
Why is it not owned by any package then?
$ dpkg -S /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config
dpkg: /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config not found.
The same applies to the other files which are still used/accessible. I
find this particularly strange for /etc/texmf/dvips/config.download35
and /etc/texmf/dvips/config.builtin35. The former belongs to tetex-base,
the latter does not belong anywhere.
Why is this the case? Did I missunderstand something?
> What should we do with the useless ini files? I'm pretty sure that
> hardly anybody has local configuration there, because everyone who
> can successfully change them knows better and will have renamed the
> file. On the other hand, I'm damn sure somebody will complain it is a
> policy violation if we just delete them.
>
> Hm, the postinst script should check the md5sums and delete them only
> when unchanged. And if some are changed, it should rename it -
> maybe add a suffix ".unused"?
Sounds good to me.
cheerio
ralf
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