Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:47:46 +0200
> > >The language.dat is from now on maintained using debconf (if you
> > >answered that question with yes, which is the default). Hence
> > >language.dat is sitting in /var/lib and everything is OK.
> >
> > I am mainly concern with backup:
> > Is there a `debconf' data file for `language.dat'
> > somewhere in `/etc' ?
> >
> No, it's maintained by debconf, which helds it's data in /var/cache.
> Sorry, my statement yesterday was wrong: language.dat should be in
> /etc. I made actually a fresh tetex-installation in my UML and I've
> seen language.dat in /etc/texmf. So everything is correct. Sorry to
> debian-tetex-maint for the confusion.
Hmm, I was confused. I don't know what "debconf data"
means but conserning language.dat your previous statement
was correct AFAIK. Did you check
ls -l /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
I guess it would be something like
kohda@nsx:~$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2003-09-04 23:28 /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat -> /var/lib/texmf/language.dat
But it is true that there is also /etc/texmf/language.dat
which is not necessary in a standard case and I noticed
it caused confusion. And I plan to fix this, please see
From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: plan of next upload
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:25:21 +0900 (JST)
> +# rename unused language.dat
> + if [ -f ${ELDAT} ]; then mv -f ${ELDAT} ${ELDAT}.dpkg-old; fi
(Further, please everbody check this patch!)
The reason of /etc/texmf/language.dat is; there might
be hyphenation pattern not included in teTeX because
of license problem etc. In this case, one can't add such
hyphenation patter with the current tetex-bin's mechanism
so /etc/texmf/language.dat might help such user.
If fact, swedish hyphenation seemed removed from the upstream.
Please see
http://www.mail-archive.com/tetex%40informatik.uni-hannover.de/msg01878.html
> > the version 4.12 `lshort' uses the `eurofont.sty' which
> > is not distributed as well the font data files that it uses.
> >
> Well, eurosans.sty seems to be missing too. Both are not contained in
> upstream teTeX and hence not in Debian. We should ask Thomas to
> include them, if the license is compatible to the DFSG.
Sorry but what lshort did you talk about?
Is it /usr/share/texmf/source/latex/lshort/src/lshort.tex ?
Regards, 2003-10-17(Fri)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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