Re: Another way to deal with the Font Map Problem

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

>> Why do you need to add a workaround?
>>   - tetex 2 -> you say it doesn't fail;
>>   - tetex 3 -> currently, lmodern is not split, and it will be split
>>     according to the new plan, which shouldn't fail.
>
> The problem is tetex-extra: Some map files are in tetex-extra, not base,
> and need to be split of 00updmap.cfg. Therefore I need the scheme that
> I was trying to implement even to be able to install tetex-extra.

You are talking about tetex 3, aren't you? I still believe it doesn't
fail in tetex 2.

>>     [ and what would be the workaround? Copying
>>       /etc/texmf/dvips/*.map.dpkg-new to /etc/texmf/dvips/*.map? ]
>
> No, I think this would confuse dpkg - at least some checks whether a
> conffile does already exist, and with which hash, is done before the
> configure phase.

Agreed, it would not be very pretty.

> The workaround was simply to copy 10tetex.cfg into updmap.d in
> *postinst*, irrespective of whether it was missing because the package
> never was installed, or because the admin has deleted it.

OK.

-- 
Florent