Bug#213310: tetex-base: the dvips database should not be in /etc

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 10.12.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) schrieb:
> > Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:

Hi all,

> >> Not so complete but simple way could be to check only
> >> postinst of packages listed in the following command;
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> [...]
> 
> (of course this failed with the packages that come from a source package
> with different name, but the directory removal then also failed).
> 
Checked that. No more new results, than these below.

> The strange outcome is that only tetex-extra.postinst was put into
> "hitdir". Can this be true, or was there an error in my script?
> 
I think there is an error. I got some error messages, that he could
not create directories. I had to modify one line:

grep -q updmap $file && { mkdir -p $hitdir/$dirname/debian; cp $file ${hitdir}/${file}; }

The result was:

arabtex-3.10 cjk-latex-4.5.1 dvipsk-ja-5.92b+jp1.6 hlatex-0.991
thailatex-0.2.99.3 .

hlatex and arabtex even tries still to modify and call
/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap .
dvipsk-ja and cjk-latex have the word "updmap" anywhere below debian/
but it is not found in any kind of postinst script. dvipsk-ja seems
to have kicked out the usage of updmap. cjk has it documented in
upstream documents but not used in the package itself (AFAICS).

> The list of packages that apt-rdepends gave is given below.
> 
My one (taken from an unstable/testing box^1) looks like:

abc2mtex abntex advi alml arabtex bibtex2html cdcover chaksem
circ-tex cjk-latex cweb-latex disc-cover dvidvi dvifb dvilx dvipdfmx
dvipsk-ja dvisvga ethiop foiltex hevea hlatex jadetex jbibtex-base
jlatex209-base jmpost jtex-base jtex-bin latex-ucs latex209-base
latex209-bin latex2rtf lgrind libipe1 libkpathsea-dev
libkpathsea-perl lilypond linuxdoc-tools-latex lprfax mfpic mftrace
mmix-src multex-base multex-bin musixlyr musixtex ocamlweb opustex
pbox-tex pdfscreen pktrace pmx preview-latex prosper ptex-base
ptex-bin ptex-jtex pxfonts revtex revtex4 rubber
scalable-cyrfonts-tex sgf2tex sgmltexi tetex-brev tetex-eurosym
tetex-extra tex-chess tex-skak tex4ht texdoctk texgd texmacs
tfm-arphic-bkai00mp tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp tfm-arphic-gbsn00lp
tfm-arphic-gkai00mp thailatex therion translate-docformat txfonts
whizzytex wims xdvik-ja xmltex xt-strategoxt

How did you create your list? I used "apt-rdepend -r tetex-bin".

Regards,
  Hilmar

^1 Yes, I have an unstable box, but I'm not root and it is hidden
behind a modem connection. 
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