Bug#58320: Page size fixed at A4

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"SL" == Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>

    SL> My suggestion is that tetex-base's postinst should ask
    SL> paperconf what papersize to use.  (paperconf -w and
    SL> paperconf -h) This can then be autogenerated into
    SL> /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg on postinst.

I think it's easier than that -- paperconf -d outputs the default
paper size name, and we could run

   texconfig pdftex paper $paper

(along with

   texconfig dvips paper $paper

) to set the correct paper sizes.  ($paper, because we would have
to have translation table to match up the paper names that
paperconf uses with the paper names that texconfig expects.)

Of course if we change the way things work now, we'll get
complaints from people who have their dvips/pdftex paper sizes set
differently than their system settings, or who have never set a
default paper size.  We would also have to add dependencies for
libpaperg (which is an optional package).  

I still think it sounds like a good idea.

   CMC

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