Bug#176526: the problem with PATH setting in auxillary script of tetex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

retitle 176526 access binary should have a less generic name
tags 176526 fixed-upstream

Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl> schrieb:

> Frank Küster writes:
>
>> What could be regarded as a bug, however, is the very generic name of
>> our binary. It could well be something like "fileaccess" or "tryaccess"
>> or "tex-access". On the other hand, what it does is, with some
>> decoration for option parsing, the most generic implementation of a
>> user-space binary using access(2).
>
> Having a command for use in scripts that duplicates the functionality
> of a system call named after that system call seemed reasonable at the
> time.
>
> The command is named kpseaccess in the next (upstream) release of
> kpathsea/teTeX/TeX-live.

Thank you. This name is of course the best one - I had to sit on my
bike yesterday evening to get this idea, too...

Thank you, Frank

P.S. Olaf, are you subscribed to debian-tetex-maint, or do you have some
magic google-checking script?


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