Re: cm-super for Debian, problems with tetex

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Fre, 26 Aug 2005, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> > avantgar, bookman, helvetiv, etc are the URW fonts.
>> 
>> In that case the phrase 'Macro package for TeX (the most popular)' is a
>> bit missleading. :-) BTW, is it the fonts only (pfb, afm), or are these
>> the tfm/vf, too?
> 
> afm, tfm, vf, pfb, fd

Are these the tfm, vf, fd from PSNFSS? What's left in texlive-latex
then? Just a few sty files?

[...]
>> should at least Suggest/Recommend texlive-fontsrecomended. In addition,
> 
> Doesn't it?

Nope:

Package: texlive-latex
Version: 2005.08.24-1
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Maintainer: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Depends: tex-common (>= 0.7), texlive-pdfetex
Conflicts: tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, tetex-doc, tetex-src,
 	pdfscreen, latex-ucs, ivritex
Architecture: all
Filename: pool/texlive-latex_2005.08.24-1_all.deb
Size: 17631382
Installed-Size: 32464
MD5sum: 7267a0749d24fc98dc12084503719481
Description: TeXLive: Basic LaTeX packages
 These packages are either mandated by the core LaTeX team,
 or very commonly recommended

>> > No, I would add a Replace: texlive-XXXX
>> 
>> But that would uninstall texlive-fontsrecomended, no? BTW, looking at
> 
> No, it would replace FILES from texlive-fontsrecommended.

<KLATSCH>, thanks for setting me straight. BTW, would that be needed in
both packages? I mean, one can't be sure which one is installed first
after all. Or, if foo replaces files in bar, bar is allowed to do the
same in foo even without declaring so?

>> garamond -- URW Garamond No8 Postscript Type 1 fonts.
> 
> tfm and vf, but this can be handled too with Replaces, or I can leave
> this out.
> 
> Generally as soon as we have a decent install mechanism for commercial
> fonts, I could leave out all these tfm/vf stuff for them from the
> texlive packages and tell the users to use the mk-fontpack stuff to
> generate a decent debian package.

For really commercial fonts, yes. But for 'free-beer fonts', having
readymade debian packages is interesting IMO. Also, IMHO metrics for
non-free fonts should only be in 'contrib', not in 'main'.

cheerio
ralf