tetex: symlink "loop"

[Tim Bell <bhat@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

I've just installed the latest versions of the tetex packages from my
local mirror, i.e.:

ii  tetex-base      0.9-5          basic teTeX library files
ii  tetex-bin       0.9-4          teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-doc       0.9-5          teTeX documentation
ii  tetex-extra     0.9-5          extra teTeX library files
ii  tetex-nonfree   0.9-5          non-free teTeX library files

and I find that /etc/texmf/dvips/config is a symlink to
/etc/texmf/dvips.  This causes the following to appear in
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R:

./dvips/config:
config
config.ams
config.amz
config.cm
config.cmz
config.dfaxhigh
config.dfaxlo
config.dvired
config.epsf
config.ps
config.ps.dpkg-dist
config.www

./dvips/config/config:
config
[etc.]

./dvips/config/config/config:
config
[etc.]

and so on, until a line with 584 "config/"s, after which it stops.
This can't help the lookup speed for finding input files: the ls-R file
is 1324kb, compared with 34kb on a machine with tetex-base version
0.4pl8-7.

Has anyone else seen this? I can't see any bug reports for it.

-- 
Tim Bell - bhat@cs.mu.oz.au - Dept of Comp Sci - Uni of Melbourne, Australia


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