Re: Bug#332673: TeX is unable to find cm-super-t2a.enc file
On 2005.10.08 at 15:28:39 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Victor, hi Frank and all the Debian/teTeX maintainer!
>
> > > reason: Soon teTeX 3 will be uploaded and will replace current teTeX 2.
> > > For teTeX 3 the location of the enc files is correct, as the TeX
> > > filesystem standard has changed.
> >
> > No. Just now testing and unstable has tetex-2.0. So, tetex-3-only
> > packages have to be uploaded in experimental.
>
> They are already in experimental for quite some time, and will go to
> unstable soon.
>
> What I meant: Soon teTeX3 is in unstable, the only distribution where
> also cm-super is.
>
> So I see two options:
> * make the depend on tetex versioned >= 3
It seems it is a right way to go. It is most straightforward.
> * add some hacks for tetex 2
May be just add a file into source package, like README.TeTeX-2.0 as
hint for backporters. It seems that we, who use stable with few
backports from unstable have no reason to upgrade to teTeX-3.0 until
etch is released.
> Frank et al., what do you suggest with respect to cm-super. In fact I
> think the former version is ok, as for tetex2 people can use the old
> package. I orginally had the versioned depend, but someone (Ralf?)
> suggested to make it work also with tetex2, and he told me it did work
> (strange, did he change the texmf.cnf file?).
I think that he just haven't tried to use all the potential of
cm-super. It might be that with \usepackage{type1ec} it does work, but
only for t1.
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