Bug#248308: tetex-bin: lost directories in /var/cache/fonts are not recreated

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi fellow developers,

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> If the directories pk/, tfm/, and source/ within the /var/cache/fonts
> directory are lost (e.g. because there was no backup of
> /var/cache...), they will not be recreated by tetex-bin's
> postinst. This is because it simply looks into
> /etc/texmf/varfontdirs.debian and does not check whether the
> information therein is correct.

is there any reason why those directories are not simply included in the
debian package? 

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