Bug#269930: tetex-bin: pdflatex complains of missing fonts and uses a different (uglier) font

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> On 23.09.04 Frank K?ster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> But I think, as a general thing (post-sarge), we should consider
>> splitting up 00updmap.cfg into a tetex-base and a tetex-extra part,
>> so that updmap will stop issuing all those "not found" messages for
>> tetex?extra's map files if only tetex-base is installed.
>> 
> And we should abolish that update-updmap and use the mechanisms of
> updmap itself. Then updmap.cfg could go back to /etc.

How could a package then make sure that its map files are included? When
it is installed, it can use "--enable my.map". But when the next font
package is installed, it will call updmap again, this time with
"--enable next.map", and my.map will be lost.

Or what am I missing?

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