Bug#874632: texinfo: inconsistent papersize for generated dvi and ps

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2019-07-08 16:40:51 +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> root@amd64-sid:~# dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
> Replacing config file /etc/papersize with new version
> tl-paper: setting paper size for context to a4:
> /var/lib/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys-paper.tex
> tl-paper: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to a4:
> /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg
> tl-paper: setting paper size for dvips to a4:
> /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps
> tl-paper: setting paper size for pdftex to a4:
> /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
> tl-paper: setting paper size for xdvi to a4: /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper
> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
> Building format(s) --refresh.
> 	This may take some time... done.
> 
> Not sure what the default value is, when there was no user interaction.

The default value is letter, but in 2015, I did
"dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" and chose a4.

The config.dat file contains:

Name: libpaper/defaultpaper
Template: libpaper/defaultpaper
Value: a4
Owners: libpaper1, libpaper1:amd64
Flags: seen

but I get:

zira:~> tl-paper
Current context paper size (from /etc/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme): a4
Current dvipdfmx paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-paper.cfg): letter
Current dvips paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps): letter
Current pdftex paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex): a4
Current xdvi paper size (from /var/lib/texmf/xdvi/XDvi-paper): letter

/var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/config-paper.ps, for instance, was
regenerated during the latest texlive-base upgrade.

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