Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#209395: teTeX: language.dat mislinked
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:45:19 +0100
> > Hmm, it looked to me that pdflatex worked fine with lshort. What
> > happend with you in fact?
> >
> Which version did you try? 4.00, which comes with teTeX and hence
> with Debian, or 4.12 available from CTAN? We're speaking about the
> latter.
Ah, sorry I tried with 4.00.
> So I think everything is OK. We deliver out teTeX without the fonts
> and the related sty-files.
> 1. xdvi and dvips are able to handle missing fonts.
> 2. The document will arrive in Debian pre-compiled. So there is no
> necessity to provide the users with the sty-files.
> If anybody wants to compile that stuff himself and want to provide a
> package to do that: feel free to do so, but that is (IMHO) not the
> problem of teTeX. For simply building the dvi-file one need only the
> tfm-files, which are freely available.
Right. So I guess installer package (requested by Jerome)
should be outside tetex-* packages.
> Nope the whole subthread has nothing to do with the original
> submission, however I still agree with the submitter, that
> language.dat should go into /etc.
I myself don't object to it but I'm still not willing to
put language.dat under /etc
I believe that your main concern was to backup information
for setting up another box.
My quick rough idea is;
- answer no to debconf question "Manage language.dat with debconf?"
- backup /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
- create /var/etc and put every "generated configuration files"
under it. But I don't know FHS enough and might need to change policy.
Regards, 2003-11-28(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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