Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing

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

From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
Subject: Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:45:21 +0200

> Yes, in woody pdflatex (and probably more binaries, see below) won't run
> unless tetex-extra is installed. In the current tetex, the respective
> files are in tetex-base. 

Well, this had been very, very old request from users.
In changelog.Debian you can see;

tetex-base (1.0.2+20021025-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved pdftex/pdflatex stuffs in tetex-base so now pdftex/pdflatex
    should work without tetex-extra.  [kohda]  
    (Closes: #143751, #95995, #139298)

Note #95995 was of Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:31:10 -0400

> Therefore this bug is yet fixed, and for woody users there are two
> possibilities:
> 
> b) get the individual *.ini files and run update-fmtutil (I think this
> is the right one, isn't it?). Probably running
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-{base,bin}.postinst as root will work too.

update-fmtutil would be not necessary for pdftex/pdflatex
because their entries were already included in 00tetex.cnf
and "fmtutil --all" (or fmtutil --missing?) would be enough.

> JFTR, below is the output upon configuring tetex-extra that shows which
> format files could only be generated then.
...
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.fmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.fmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt successfully generated.
> fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem successfully generated.

In the newer READEME.Debian (of tetex-bin), we described 
as follows at present;

- For amstex, metapost, eurosym, texdoctk, txfonts, pxfonts etc. you need
  tetex-extra at present.
  (pdftex/pdflatex should work basically only with tetex-base now.) 

We should add "omega, lambda" there?  (I'm not familiar with these.)

Thanks,				2003-7-30(Wed)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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