Re: Update tetex-bin description re pdflatex

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

From: dan@tellurian.com.au
Subject: Update tetex-bin description re pdflatex
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:20:07 +1030 (CST)

> Here's a simple one.
> 
> pdflatex doesn't appear in the "Includes" part of the description (dpkg
> -p) which means that apt-cache doesn't find it, and even google doesn't
> come up with any clues. After a little confusion I worked out which
> package had it by searching the bug database. This should be fixed.

Yes, description of tetex packages is completely outdated.
We recognized it and I proposed some idea once.

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Description etc. need update
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:14:16 +0900 (JST)

> Hi all,
> 
> The current Description of tetx-bin contains
> 
>  Includes: ps2pk, dvilj, amstex, dvips, texbin, bibtex, xdvi, makeindex,
>            latex, kpathsea, mfbin, amslatex
> 
> It's not only me who wonder what is texbin/mfbin and why ps2pk is
> put in the first place.
> 
> More strange one is of tetex-base;
> 
>  Includes: texlib, latex, mflib, mfbasfnt, bibtex, textfm
> 
> and of tetex-extra;
> 
>  Includes: texlib, latex, mflib, mfbasfnt, bibtex, textfm
> 
> hmmm, these are completely same and what is texlib or mfbasfnt(?), 
> and of tetex-doc;
> 
>  Includes: latex2e-doc
> 
> I guess that Description of tetex-bin might be;
> 
>  Includes: tex, latex, omega, lambda, bibtex, makeindex, dvips, xdvi, 
>            metafont, amstex, amslatex
> 
> and of tetex-base;
> 
>  Includes: files for standard tex/latex/bibtex, for pdftex/pdflatex/context,
>            for metapost (or mpost?), tfm files, mf files (or source files
>            for metafont?)
> 
> and there is no need of "Includes:" line for tetex-doc.
> 
> Description of, at least, tetex-base should be more refined,
> I guess.
> 
> Further, I wrote README.Debian for tetex-bin (it didn't
> exist at all in older version!)
> 
> I hope someone would refine it, really.

We will certainly need to update description.

Thanks for your interest.      2003-1-3(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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