Bug#285793: tetex-base: installation of testing w/o error but: texconfig init fails and guide is for version 1.0

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

# for justification see below
severity 285793 minor
retitle 285793 newhelpindex.html claim this is teTeX 1.0
thanks 

Ulrich Scholz <scholz@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2c-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> I installed all packages related to teTeX (testing, >2.0).
> Soehow, it doesn't work:
>
> - The documentation guide still says "What's new in teTeX 1.0".  I'm
> sure that the guied of teTeX 2.0 mentions 2.0.

Thanks you for reporting this. But no, this is not our fault, this is
the file from the original teTeX 2.0 distribution - it is really an
upstream bug. I have yet to check whether only the number is wrong, or
whether the whole section is outdated. Once I know this we will fix it.

> - latex x.tex says
>
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
>
> I set $TEXMF and $TETEXDIR correctly and did texhash
>
> in my local .profile:
>
> export TETEXDIR=/usr/share
> export TEXMF=$TETEXDIR/texmf

And why do you do this? If the Debian package wouldn't set this correct
by itself, this would be a bug. You messed it up, no wonder that it
doesn't work.

> [scholzuh@h409:Personen] >grep ^TEXMF /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
> TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf
> TEXMFOLDLOCAL = /usr/local/lib/texmf
> TEXMF =
> {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

This is how it should look like. Just remove the setting from your
.profile, and you're done.

But please tell us why you thought that this would be necessary. Maybe
others have this misconception, too, and we should document this at a
prominent place.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer