Your message dated Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:34:07 +0900 with message-id <20100425233407.GD11758@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> and subject line Re: Bug#578452: /usr/bin/mpost: not very useful without mpost.mp/plain.mp has caused the Debian Bug report #578452, regarding /usr/bin/mpost: not very useful without mpost.mp/plain.mp to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 578452: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578452 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: /usr/bin/mpost: not very useful without mpost.mp/plain.mp
- From: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:52:11 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20100419235211.GA8558@oh.minilop.net>
Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-5 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/mpost I'm not that familiar with Metapost, so I was confused by the errors I got when I ran it: it was looking for mpost.mp, or failing that, plain.mp, and didn't have them. Installing texlive-metapost made it work. Should mpost.mp and plain.mp move to texlive-binaries, or should mpost move to texlive-metapost, or should texlive-binaries depend on or recommend texlive-metapost, or something else? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii libkpathsea5 2009-5 TeX Live: path search library for ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler5 0.12.2-2 PDF rendering library ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-2 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii tex-common 2.07 common infrastructure for building ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime texlive-binaries recommends no packages. texlive-binaries suggests no packages. -- no debconf informationAttachment: signature.asc
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- To: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>, 578452-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#578452: /usr/bin/mpost: not very useful without mpost.mp/plain.mp
- From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:34:07 +0900
- Message-id: <20100425233407.GD11758@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20100419235211.GA8558@oh.minilop.net>
- References: <[🔎] 20100419235211.GA8558@oh.minilop.net>
On Mo, 19 Apr 2010, Jamey Sharp wrote: > I'm not that familiar with Metapost, so I was confused by the errors I Then why do you wonder that something does not work? > got when I ran it: it was looking for mpost.mp, or failing that, > plain.mp, and didn't have them. Installing texlive-metapost made it > work. So what? > Should mpost.mp and plain.mp move to texlive-binaries, or should mpost > move to texlive-metapost, or should texlive-binaries depend on or > recommend texlive-metapost, or something else? texlive-metapost already depends on telxive-binaries, what else is necessary here? And no, texlive-binaries should NOT recommend texlive-metapost. The packages that provide functionality are the texlive-* packages BUT the texlive-binaries. The -binaries package is here *only* for making only one arch depending package and not the whole of texlive (thus duplicating thousands of files/tons of space on the servers). You can run mpost without plain.mp and whatever, just do mpost -ini and you can do whatever you want, so it is functional, definitely. Closing this bug because I hate "wont-fix" tags, you can do whatever you want with it, reopen, rename, reassign. All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OSSETT (n.) A frilly spare-toilet-roll-cosy. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
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