Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed in principle (see below). However, I think it is also important > that every package that calls fmtutil/updmap/... has to call the > apropriate update-* scripts before, which tetex-bin does not at the moment. > > Just imagine that instead of tetex-base it would have been tetex-bin > that got updated together with jadetex recently: tetex-bin's postinst > regenerates formats, but the present fmtutil.cnf still represents the > state valid before the changes to jadtex.ini. The same failure as with > tetex-base would occur. If tetex-bin's postinst would call > update-format, the problematic lines would not be present in fmtutil.cnf > due to the present .dpkg-new file.
I agree, we should get a tetex-bin that does this into etch, and check texlive-*bin*. > A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to > change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base > or jadetex: Right now they regerenate all formats, even though this is > not necessary. Why not have them regenerate only those formats they > actually provide? A simple way to achieve this would be to call > > fmtutil-sys --all --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/foo.cnf > > That way these packages would be more self contained and could not get > as easily broken by other packages. Of course, the 'binary providing > packages' such as tetex-bin would still have to regenerate all formats. I think that's a very good idea. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
