Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> From: Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:27:35 -0400
>
>> I was trying to run pdflatex but it complains it can't find the
>> pdflatex.fmt file.... turns out this problems seems to be related
>> to the fact that the pdflatex.ini file referenced in
>> /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf doesn't exist either....
>
> Perhaps you need to install tetex-extra for pdftex/pdflatex
> because you seem to use rather old version (1.0.2+20011202-2)

Well, this is the woody version, and it is supposed to work in a woody
context. 

However, if pdflatex fails because a file is in tetex-extra instead of
tetex-base, then it seems to me that either tetex-bin had to depend on
tetex-extra (which doesn't make sense) or that file should have been
moved to tetex-bin.

I have tried to reproduce the bug, but had problems with pbuilder
creating a woody chroot, so I am not sure about this.

> pdftex/pdflatex stuffs were already moved in tetex-base with
> the newer tetex packages.

In stable, there is tetex-bin_1.0.7 and
tetex-{base,extra,doc,src}_1.0.2. Could this be the problem? I can
hardly believe, because then this problem would have been detected much
earlier. 

Bye, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie