Bug#38290: tetex-base: postscript fonts, psfonts.map and tetex updates

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi Ulf,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 26.05.99 Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler (ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de) wrote:
>> Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>> > /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map is a confile which you can change and
>> > which will not be overwritten on update if you don't request it. What
>> > is your problem with this?
>> 
[...]
>> So I thought that there could be a simpler way to get a "personal"
>> psfonts.map file. Maybe one, which is created on install time during
>> postinst.
>> 
> Yes, there is. Until the advent of teTeX 2.0 the normal way was to
> edit /etc/texmf/updmap, add your map file, put it into
> /etc/texmf/dvips and then call that script.
> Since teTeX 2.0 you have to edit updmap.cfg, add your map file to it,
> put it into /etc/texmf/dvips and then call updmap. The normal Debian
> way to do it is to put the part of updmap.cfg, which mentions your
> map-file into /etc/texmf/updmap.d/, the map-file into
> /etc/texmf/dvips, call update-updmap and updmap and you're done.
> In this case updmap.cfg is generated. This can be unselected using
> debconf. If you did that updmap.cfg is sitting in /etc and you have
> to edit it manually.
> The font configurations files pdftex, pd2pk, psfonts should never be
> touched. So I don't understand your bug report completely.

Note that the bug report is five years old. But today in fact it is
different. Hilmar told me that you had a discussion with him off-list
about this bug.

If you think now that today's method of registering fonts is what you
want, and we can close this bug, then please do this, by sending mail to
38290-done@bugs.debian.org. Otherwise I would be glad if you could write
a short mail to the bug, stating what you consider that is needed, so
that we have a chance to implement it when we find time (probably not
for sarge, and that's exactly why I'd like to have it in the archive).


Regards, Frank

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