> because etex is gone.
etex is not gone. That would be crazy. If you deleted it in Debian,
please undelete it.
- first the TEX seting in texmf.cnf should be changed,
I don't agree. As far as I can see, etex is exactly the right thing to
be using, and there is no alternative.
- mpost should not segfault on a missing etex
True enough.