Bug#269870: tetex-bin: default fmtutil.cnf breaks package 'whizzytex'

[Thomas Pichler <taupi@aon.at>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-21
Severity: normal

Hi!

The default setting for latex in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
looks like this:
  
  latex           tex             language.dat    latex.ini
  latex           etex            language.dat    *latex.ini

As a consequence, latex is really elatex, and elatex does
not work with whizzytex which only provides a .fmt, but not an .efmt 
file. (So, maybe the whizzytex maintainer(s) should do something about it?)

For the sake of completeness, whizzytex's output (copied from an emacs 
buffer) follows.

  /usr/lib/whizzytex/whizzytex
  -marks
  -advi
  advi -html Start-Document
  main.tex
  <Initial formating succeeded>
  advi -html Start-Document
  kpathsea: Running mktexfmt _whizzy_main.efmt
  fmtutil: no info for format `_whizzy_main'.
  This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
  Sorry, I can't find the format `_whizzy_main.efmt'; will try
  `latex.efmt'.
  [...]

And here is how to manually set back latex to be latex and not elatex:
as root,
- comment the line containing "latex	etex" in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
- invoke 'update-fmtutil -v'
- invoke 'texlinks --multiplatform -v'

Cheers,
Thomas Pichler
 

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Debian Release: 3.1
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-rc1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.iso8859-1

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                   1.4.34         Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils               2.8.4          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                      1.10.23        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                        0.2-20         The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.1-7      GCC support library
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkpathsea3              2.0.2-21       path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpaper1                 1.1.14-0.4     Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-7      PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.4-9      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libt1-5                   5.0.2-3        Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  libwww-ssl0 [libwww0]     5.4.0-9        The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  mime-support              3.28-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                      5.8.4-2        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                       4.1.2-1        The GNU sed stream editor
ii  tetex-base                2.0.2b-4       Basic library files of teTeX
ii  ucf                       1.08           Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-7    compression library - runtime

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