On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> schrieb: > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:58:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > >> > So then: Where does metafun.mp come from? > >> > >> branden@necrotic:~$ dlocate -S metafun.mp > >> branden@necrotic:~$ locate metafun.mp > >> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp > >> branden@necrotic:~$ dpkg -S usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp > >> dpkg: *usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp* not found. > > in unstable and testing, metafun.mp is in > /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/, the location where your file is > was used in tetex-base_1.0.2, i.e. in woody. Okay. This machine has been steadily upgraded since potato. branden@necrotic:~$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context total 212 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 20:17 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 16 20:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 16 20:17 base -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1346 May 28 2001 metafun.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7117 Jun 2 2000 mp-back.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2274 Jul 27 2000 mp-butt.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25857 Jun 4 2001 mp-char.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34707 Jan 26 2000 mp-chart.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13281 Jul 4 2001 mp-core.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7112 Apr 6 2001 mp-grph.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7848 Aug 7 2000 mp-page.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10960 Jun 7 2001 mp-shap.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7881 May 31 2001 mp-spec.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11480 Jun 7 2001 mp-step.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5925 Oct 27 2000 mp-text.mp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47303 Jun 26 2001 mp-tool.mp branden@necrotic:~$ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 16 20:17 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 20:17 .. Some of those dates look suspiciously old. Did earlier versions of a tetex package play around with symlinks to directories? > >> I assure you I didn't put that file there myself. > > > > I should note that if usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp was > > *ever* a conffile and subsequently stopped being shipped by the package, > > it would *not* be removed by dpkg. > > This file was in tetex-extra also in woody, and it wasn't a conffile > there. In potato there was no metafun stuff in tetex AFAIS, at least not > in tetex-base and tetex-extra (checked the deb's from > ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-archive/dists/potato/main/binary-all/tex/). > > So the question's open where this file comes from. What kind of machine > is this? An UltraSPARC IIi with an Ultra aXe motherboard. > Did you install any remotely TeX-related stuff manuall, i.e. without > using Debian packages? No, I did not. > Or is it 100% Debian Package Management? Yes. -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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