Re: About the updmap and VARTEXMF changes
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>>> Note: this does not cover all packages that could exhibit the
>>> problem: one could imagine a font package that calls updmap
>>> and friends only if they are available; such a package
>>> wouldn't have to depend on tetex-bin.
>>
>> But still such packages should somehow care for changes in tetex. If we
>> put the new paragraph in NEWS.Debian, that should be enough.
>
> Hmm, one can hope... Perhaps a debian-tetex-announce list would be a
> good thing too for these kind of things...
A Debian TeX Policy would be better, I'd say.
>> Oh, you're right. The code is in remove-oldmaps yet, but for the map
>> files we generated, I had planned to remove them without asking.
>
> Well, I really didn't look at tetex's maintainer scripts. I'm relying on
> your knownledge of the packages for that. :)
> But if someone still has some files like psfonts.map under his
> /etc/texmf/dvips, even with recent tetex packages installed, it is not
> necessarily because the tetex packages failed to remove them. It can be
> because they recently configured a package that puts them in the wrong
> place, such as lmodern << 0.93-3. (I'm not sure whether you were saying
> that the removal by the tetex packages is not yet fully functional)
There's no functionality yet. Except that they are removed on purge, but
that's an old feature, of course.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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