Bug#225833: pdftex: Please use libpaper

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

From: Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>
Subject: Bug#225833: pdftex: Please use libpaper
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:22:16 -0500

> pdftex and pdflatex have hardcoded values for the default paper size
> in /etc/texmf/pdftex.cfg .  (The default in the shipped package is
> A4).  Please convert the programs to do things the uniform Debian way,
> by using the libpaper library (configured with /etc/papersize).
> 
> You will need a Debian-specific patch to pdftex for this, which I
> would be happy to write if you wish.

I'd like to see the patch, at least.

Especially I'd like to know;

- which is of higher priority, pdftex.cfg and papaersize? 

- I'm afraid that a set of choices of papersize and a set 
of effective values of pdftex.cfg might be not the same.
How to do if my guess is correct?

Thanks for your interest in tetex packages.

Regards,		    2004-1-2(Fri)

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima