On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:21:37PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Frank, first of all thank you for the detailed explanation > > I'm in the process of packaging dvipost ATM and I'm a little bit puzzled > > with the 'dvipost.sty' file coming along with dvipost. > > The makefile installs the dvipost.sty file into > > /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/misc/ > > and runs texhash afterwards. > > > > So I read http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/ > > but could not find something that realy fits so I stayed with the > > installation path and put the "texhash" run into postinst and postrm. > > > > Is this the right way to deal with such stuff? > > No, not completely. I'll first tell you what's correct and why, and > then we come to the interesting part: How to fix the package's autoconf > scripts. Ah yes the autoconf script is a bunch of bad workarounds. I've to work around some more issue there anyway. *sigh* > Or, no, there's one more interesting part: How to fix the wording of the > Debian TeX Policy. You know, we thought that it should be quite clear > that this is not correct, and that section 3 should "fit" quite well, > especially 3.2. Please read it again, and tell me whether you just > didn't read it carefully enough, or how we should change it. My missunderstanding was that I somehow got the impression that this was all about fonts for latex. My problem is that I still lag some knowledge about how all those latex stuff works. That's why I try to put something like Lyx in between. (Well now I need to digg deeper to get the Lyx package back on track) [broken autoconf] > I think the clean solution would be to change the autoconf script to > output the right thing; and autoconf wizards might be able to do this > (perl and emacs lisp might have similar problems). However, for the > time being, I'd suggest to just move the file after "make install". That's what I'm doing at the moment. :) Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
