Bug#133200: tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX

[Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@po.airs.net>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-3.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Is it possible to add the following items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf? 

I maintain ptex-* packages, which contain ASCII pTeX(one of Japanized TeX
implementation).  To make kpathsea search for those pTeX .sty files etc., I
wrote a little script to add paths into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and call it from
postinst or by hand.  But a guy pointed out that it's Serious Policy Violation
and filed a RC(see Bug#125793).  Also some users complain that it's annoying
to modify texmf.cnf manually whenever tetex-bin is upgraded and texmf.cnf is
overwritten. I guess including the following paths into tetex-bin's texmf.cnf
beforehand will fix these problems.

--- texmf.cnf.orig	Sun Feb 10 20:42:43 2002
+++ texmf.cnf	Sun Feb 10 20:47:19 2002
@@ -174,6 +174,12 @@
 TEXINPUTS.lambda = .;$TEXMF/{omega,tex}/{lambda,latex,generic,}//
 TEXINPUTS.omega = .;$TEXMF/{omega,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
 
+% ASCII pTeX (for Japanese).
+TEXINPUTS.amsptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{amstex,plain,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.iniptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.platex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{platex,latex,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.ptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
+
 % Context macros by Hans Hagen:
 TEXINPUTS.context = .;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}//
 
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux shangri-la 2.4.17 #1 2002ǯ 2·î 7Æü ÌÚÍËÆü 08:33:28 JST i686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debianutils           1.15.2             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                  1.9.19             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                    0.2-19             The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                 2.2.5-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libkpathsea3          1.0.7+20011202-3.1 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng2               1.0.12-3           PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2. 1:2.95.4-2         The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libtiff3g             3.5.5-6            Tag Image File Format library
ii  libxaw7               4.1.0-14           X Athena widget set library
ii  tetex-base            1.0.2+20011202-2   basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                 4.1.0-14           X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                1:1.1.3-19         compression library - runtime