Bug#1056587: texlive-latex-base: some math characters get replaced as of Debian's TeX Live 2023
On 2023-11-25 12:28:05 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2023, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > I didn't break anything. Any user, including root, may have his own
> > environment variables for his own use. This should never interfer
>
> No. That is simply not true. Not root.
Could you cite documentation saying that root must not set
arbitrary environment variables?
> > Why not unsetting TEXINPUTS in the postinst script?
>
> I told you this already, please read.
> Because root might set TEXINPUTS on *purpose*.
This contradicts what you said above.
Note: The setting of TEXINPUTS in my case was not on purpose
(well, actually keeping the usual settings, such as LS_COLORS,
was actually there on purpose). But this could have been done
really on purpose. And this would have broken the package
installation.
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