Bug#217542: surplus manpages in debian/

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#217542: surplus manpages in debian/
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:22:19 +0200

> In the subdir debian/ are manpges, which were either superseded by
> upstream versions or are identically contained in the upstream tar
> ball. So they can be removed from the source package:
> 
> dvi2fax.1, dvihp.1, dvitomp.1, epstopdf.1, makeinfo.1, updmap.1
> 
> After removing these manpages and removing the related cp-commands
> /usr/share/man/man1 looks exactly the same in the final package.

Okay, I will fix these.

> Further I don't see any sense in the last hook of
> debian/patches/patch-src.

If you mean the patch for dvipdfm.c, it was borrowed from
the previous dvipdfm package.  Its aim is to provide a mechanism
so that fonts packages can register their map files for dvipdfm.

For example, ptex-jisfonts needs to add "f jis.map" to config
file of dvipdfm but /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config is a conffile
of tetex-base so ptex-jtex can't modify /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config

So we should provide some mechanism to make font packages
can register their map files.

Please see Bug#137021 (which I filed!) for details.

Regards,		     2003-10-26(Sun)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima