Bug#264043: this issue is not fixed

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 11.08.04 Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de) wrote:
> 
> Hi,

Hi Hilmar,

> > Are there any other packages that might be affected similarly by
> > the e-TeX change?
> > 
> May be possible: If they rely on the existence of some special formats
> in /var/lib they will fail.
> However: we're on the way to make rebuilds our packages and to create
> all 4 format files: latex.fmt, latex.efmt, pdflatex.fmt,
> pdflatex.efmt^1. That will make jadetex install again, without
> changing the checkfmt commands. However you should switch to eTeX
> too. See parts of the patch by Jay.

I'm not the jadetex maintainer.
 
But this sounds good, and it would also fix #253098 in jadetex
(jadetex could then either switch to E-TeX and depend on
tetex-bin (>= 2.0.2-17) or stay unchanged and conflict with
tetex-bin (= 2.0.2-17) ).

> H.
>...

cu
Adrian

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