On 2013/6/29 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I have started work on TeXLive 2013 packaging. I will probably use staging temporarily if needed when releasing to [testing].
Upstream has merged the data files traditionnally packaged in texlive-bin with the ordinary data packages, so I plan to move the "config" files (/etc/texmf) to texlive-core. Texlive-bin will contain almost only executables and a few manpages.
Hello, The packages are ready but they will tend to install /etc/texmf files as .pacnew instead of replacing the old ones. When it happens fmtutil will not unhappy and the things will be unusable until the user overwrites the old files with the pacnews then re-runs "fmtutil --all" as root. What do you advise? Leave the behaviour as is and write instructions in the news page? Forcibly overwriting old files? Rémy.