Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> I suspect that /tmp/tex* and /tmp/updm* might be useful
> even if fmtutil and/or uddmap ended with success.
>
> So the followings are only for a tiny note;
>
> There could happen, for example, where initex might read 
> some non-standard file from /usr/local/* or ~/texmf/ but 
> it generated foo.fmt successfully, then afterwards the foo.fmt
> might cause a problem because of some inconsistency.
>
> Of course /tmp/tex* or /tmp/updm* might be already removed
> at that instance and, as Frank pointed out, there should be 
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/*.log but, for normal users, it might
> be more user-friendly to provide /tmp/tex* of /tmp/updm* than
> so may *.log in a very deep directory /usr/share/texmf/web2c/, 
> I guess.

Don't you think that most normal users won't look at any of these files
themselves? Won't they rather ask an experienced user or report a bug?

Regards, Frank

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