Bug#197954: tetex-base: Upgrade failure in testing with removal of pxfonts (and description of work around)
From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Re: Bug#197954: tetex-base: Upgrade failure in testing with removal of pxfonts (and description of work around)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:50:11 +0100
> The related bug is closed, hence I send it to debian-tetex-maint.
> Cc to the bug.
Okay.
> > The current situation are;
> >
> > - tetex-base contains majority of pxfonts/txfonts, i.e. tfm, vf
> > etc.
> >
> > - tetex-extra contains alomost only *.fd files of pxfonts/txfonts.
> >
> > I can't see any meaning with the current situation. (But I can't
> > fiddle with sed/grep/awk in rules of tetex-base...)
> >
> OK, so please add "Provides: txfonts, pxfonts" to tetex-base.
> Reason: tetex-base contains everything necessary to use these fonts
> (vf-, pfb-, tfm-files) with plain TeX. AFAICS tetex-extra contains
> only the the Font defintion files used by LaTeX.
Basically I agreed. However, only one my worrying is;
if tetex-base Provides: pxfonts and a user finds that
even after installing tetex-base, one can't use pxfonts
properly in ones latex file, he might file a bug against
tetex-base (and it is reasonable to do so ;).
I'm not sure if you (or we) are ready to answer that bug.
Is it enough to explain the situation somewhere in README.Debian?
Regards, 2003-11-17(Mon)
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Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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