Bug#264043: trying to get to the core of the jadetex vs etex issue
> > I guess the real question in my mind is what fmtutil.cnf needs to look
> > like for JadeTeX to work properly, but minimizing any radical changes
> > so Debian can proceed with the freeze. Right now it is like so:
> >
> > jadetex tex language.dat &latex jadetex.ini
> > pdfjadetex pdftex language.dat &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini
> >
> If you don't want to use e-TeX do it that way. I've read only some
> articles in Usenet, that Knuth TeX is depreciated since beginning of
> 2003. Hence we decided to switch to e-TeX, cause I'm afraid, that
> next Debian won't come out before 2006...
With the exception of the missing dependency information, was my patch
correct with respect to switching jadetex to use eTeX? Of course, if
something like my patch were to be reapplied, it would be essential to
make it require tetex-bin >= 2.0.2-17 (which is what I forgot to do).
All my patch did was to change tex to etex in fmtutil.cnf, change
looking for .fmt to looking for .efmt in the postinst script, and
changing the symbolic links to make jadetex point to etex rather than
tex and pdfjadetex point to pdfetex rather than pdftex. I tested
these changes on my regular system and in a pbuilder environment, and
I was able to build both valid dvi and pdf files from jade's TeX
output. (As a test file, I used the documentation from one of the
files that was stalled by the jadetex installation problems.)
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Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
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