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

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

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

> From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
> Subject: Bug#202848: tetex-base: pdflatex.ini is missing
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:45:21 +0200
>
>> Yes, in woody pdflatex (and probably more binaries, see below) won't run
>> unless tetex-extra is installed. In the current tetex, the respective
>> files are in tetex-base. 
>
> Well, this had been very, very old request from users.
> In changelog.Debian you can see;
>
> tetex-base (1.0.2+20021025-4) unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * Moved pdftex/pdflatex stuffs in tetex-base so now pdftex/pdflatex
>     should work without tetex-extra.  [kohda]  
>     (Closes: #143751, #95995, #139298)
>
> Note #95995 was of Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:31:10 -0400

Strangely, in the package that is in stable (just downloaded it and
checked again), pdflatex.ini is not included, although the stable
package is "younger" than that, it's 1.0.3-20021202-2.

> update-fmtutil would be not necessary for pdftex/pdflatex
> because their entries were already included in 00tetex.cnf
> and "fmtutil --all" (or fmtutil --missing?) would be enough.

Thanks.

> In the newer READEME.Debian (of tetex-bin), we described 
> as follows at present;
>
> - For amstex, metapost, eurosym, texdoctk, txfonts, pxfonts etc. you need
>   tetex-extra at present.
>   (pdftex/pdflatex should work basically only with tetex-base now.) 
>
> We should add "omega, lambda" there?  (I'm not familiar with these.)

Me neither. Anybody has experience? If not, I'll ask Thomas Esser.

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