Comment 20 for bug 7562

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:39:37 +0200
From: Martin Schulze <email address hidden>
To: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
Cc: Pierre Machard <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#267413: tetex-bin: Impossible to process a .tex

Frank K=FCster wrote:
> Short notes the debian-admin:=20
>=20
> - Please read the section starting "2. What happens on the buildds", yo=
u
> might be able to help in debugging, or to provide ressources.

Debian-admin does not manage the buildds, you'll have to talk to the part=
icular
buildd admins

> - You should do some dpkg-reconfigure'ing, at least on merulo, because
> of changes in debconf defaults introduced long ago. A detailed
> description of what should be done is at the end, below "3. Detailed
> description what debian-admin should do". The rationale why I think
> this is the right thing to do comes first.
>=20
>=20
> To accept the changed debconf defaults, "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin"
> should be run, and the following choices made:
>=20
> Question:
> Use update-fmtutil to automatically generate fmtutil.cnf?
> Answer: YES
>=20
> Question:
> Use update-updmap to automatically generate updmap.cfg?
> Answer: YES
>=20
> Question:
> Manage language.dat with debconf?
> Answer: NO

Done in the unstable chroot.

>=20
> In addition to the last change, the NO answer, you need to follow the
> advice in NEWS.Debian:
>=20
> ,----
> | If you have previously used debconf management for language.dat, you
> | can continue doing so. If you want to get back to the new default, th=
e
> | best way is to copy /usr/share/tetex-base/language.dflt to
> | /etc/texmf/language.dat, "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin" and chose not t=
o
> | manage this file by debconf.
> `----

Copied afterwards, since the text came after your debconf request. Hope
that's fine as well.

Regards,

 Joey

--=20
Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it! -- Mark Twa=
in