Re: Using debconf to get answers about which languages to install

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Mit, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > I would prefer it like it is (less work), i.e. all languages installed
>> > are activated, but if there are too many, well, bad luck (ok).
>> 
>> Wasn't there a discussion recently on the texlive list about increasing
>> the hyphenation trie size (or whatever register first gets exhausted)?
>
> Ok, I checked. Please increase the trie_size from 262000 to 26500 (or
> slightly more to be on the sure side) and all the languages can be
> included into the latex format without breaking.

Good, I'll do that, I took 270000.

By the way - your speed of developing texlive is a little too high for
me to keep up with, even if keeping up only means uploads of
tex-common.  Do you plan to apply to become a Debian Developer yourself,
and would you be willing to co-maintain tex-common?

>  # for the teTeX packages
>  teTeX_buildfiles=debian/common.variables debian/common.functions
> @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@
>  	cp -a debian/md5sums/* $(INSTDIR)/usr/share/tex-common/
>  	cp $(sbin_installfiles) $(INSTDIR)/usr/sbin/
>  	ln -s /usr/sbin/update-fontlang $(INSTDIR)/usr/sbin/update-language
> +	ln -s /usr/sbin/update-fontlang $(INSTDIR)/usr/sbin/update-fmtutil
>  	ln -s /usr/sbin/update-fontlang $(INSTDIR)/usr/bin/update-updmap
> +
>  	cp $(teTeX_buildfiles) $(INSTDIR)/usr/share/tex-common/teTeX-build/

By the way (again), don't know who first wrote this, but I changed those
links to be relative symlinks, as mandated by policy.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer