On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 09:15:06 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

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.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

On 2013/7/2 Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:

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An official announcement is useful here because it requires user intervention. An install message is not appropriate (i.e. not sufficient for the problem at hand).

So, yes, if there is no other way to solve this you should post a news announcement explaining the reason why this intervention is required and the steps to take in order to solve it.

I think we can try that. I will upload the current version of packages to [testing]. I don't think it is a common practice to sliently overwrite files in /etc, but I don't understand why new files get installed as .pacnew.

I have tried the upgrade path from a clean Texlive 2012 install and it does not replace the old files.

Rémy.

.pacnew files get created when the old files have been altered - user edited https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacnew_and_Pacsave_Files#.pacnew I have no idea what /etc/texmf hold and why would one edit them, but if you updated from a clean Texlive 2012 install I guess no edits were made to these files and thus no .pacnew files got created .