Bug#325529: tetex-base: lambda is missing

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 29.08.05 A Mennucc (mennucc1@debian.org) wrote:
>
>> Package: tetex-base
>> Version: 3.0-7
>> Severity: normal
>> Tags: experimental
>> 
>> hi
>> 
>> I decided to give a try to the new tetex in experimental; all seems fine
>> in general (I actually like the new xdvi a lot); but I noted that 
>> "lambda" is missing; here is what I experience
>> 
>> $ lambda semin.tex
>> This is Omega, Version 3.141592-1.23.2.3 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>> Copyright (c) 1994--2000 John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt lambda.fmt
>> lambda: format `lambda' not available.
>> I can't find the format file `lambda.fmt'!
>> 
> AFAICT already in teTeX 2.0.2 lambda was only available after
> installin tetex-extra.

We should probably ship the symlink lambda -> omega in tetex-extra, not
-bin. 

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