Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:00:32 +0200
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> schrieb:
>
> > Yes, calling fmtutil twice is intentional. A failure with
> > "I'm stymied" message has been occured with jadetex fairy
> > often and it can be fixed with the next (the second time)
> > call of fmtutil.
> >
> > I have failed to find out the reason why it failed at first run
> > of fmtutil but at least calling fmtutil twice has been a simple
> > fix of this problem.
>
> Do you remember any bug numbers/titles? I would like to have a look at
> this.
I found at least #170963, #169825 with quick browsing through
changelog.
> I think it is a bug in fmtutil if it does not detect all errors - and
> it's probably a bug (or should I say misfeature...) in TeX if it
> produces an error message without a line that matches ^!.
>
> Also, I would prefer to fix the reason why it isn't generated correctly
> in the first place.
Yes, it is a workaround but not a fix. We should find out
a real fix.
Note at present jadetex itself does the same kind of trick,
if I rememebred correctly.
Regards, 2004-5-27(Thu)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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