teTeX and sarge-release
Hi,
In the Last Debian Weeky News I found a paragraph, which alarmed me a
little bit.
<quote>
Sarge Release Progress. Nathanael Nerode [37]reported about the
status of several important packages for sarge (glibc, GCC, GNOME 2,
KDE 3, debian-installer, Apache etc.). Most packages are in a
relative good state, but some still require a certain amount of work.
He writes that if issues in a limited number of packages were dealt
with, sarge could probably be released for i386 in about two weeks.
37. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0401/msg00264.html
</quote>
Two weeks can be a very short time. There are a few bugs in teTeX,
which could have that tag pending and which could be closed, without
breaking anything. I would like to have these uploaded to unstable
ASAP, so that stuff has still enough time to migrate into testing
before release. I think of:
- texdoc manpage update (just another patch attached). Remark about
that: There is a files-section in the original manpge, which tells
me that there is a config file for texdoc called texdoc.cnf. I have
doubt, that this is true.
- #213310
- #223729
- #223412 (please put it into patch-tmp, as I expect to get it fixed
from upstream)
- #227203
- #123393 (please put it into patch-tmp, as Olaf will release a fixed
web2c) Thomas has confirmed, that my fix is portable enough to ge
included into web2c.
- #221793 (already in CVS)
All these bugs belong to tetex-bin (AFAICS), so no new tetex-base is
needed.
I've spoken to Thomas Esser in December and asked about his release
timeline. He told me that there is a lot of stuff in his queue and
he'll not be able to invest too much time into it, so don't expect
another teTeX soon.
Hilmar
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--- texdoc.man.orig Thu Jan 15 10:44:39 2004
+++ texdoc.man Thu Jan 15 11:01:55 2004
@@ -36,14 +36,13 @@
DVI viewer\&. Defaults to \fBxdvi\fP(1)\&.
.IP
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_pdf\fP"
-PDF viewer\&. Defaults to \fBacroread\fP(1)\&.
+PDF viewer\&.
.IP
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_ps\fP"
-PostScript viewer\&. Defaults to
-\fBghostview\fP(1)\&.
+PostScript viewer\&.
.IP
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_html\fP"
-HTML viewer\&. Defaults to \fBnetscape\fP(1)\&.
+HTML viewer\&.
.IP
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_txt\fP"
Text viewer\&. Defaults to \fB$PAGER-more\fP\&.
@@ -62,6 +61,15 @@
.PP
hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html
.RE
+.PP
+.SH "SPECIFIC TO DEBIAN"
+.PP
+As of tetex-2.0.2-4.3 texdoc uses the mime-support package to determine
+the appropriate viewer for the respective file type except for
+\fIdvi\fP and \fItxt\fP. texdoc of Debian is able to handle gzip- and
+bzip2-compressed files. If texdoc finds more than on file for a string
+the first hit is displayed. The file extensions are regarded and the
+search order can be configured in \fItexmf.cnf\fP (\fI90TeXDoc.cnf\fP).
.PP
.SH "FILES"
.PP
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