Bug#100332: New package splitting scheme for teTeX in Debian

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> dvipdfm ebb (unsure about those)

I don't think we need them in tetex-bin-core or however it's going to be
called.  I don't think that dvipdfm is used to create pdf in any
automated system.  We can always put it back if somebody complains.

Or rather, as already pointed out, once we have a plan of the new
splitting scheme, we should approach the maintainers of depending and
build-depending packages, in order to get their input.  I don't think,
however, that we should do this now, while the plans are still vague.

Here are some more suggestions for the opt-out list, including what
you already provided:

omega,
aleph, 
omfonts, 
odvicopy, 
odvitype, 
otangle, 
otp2ocp, 
outocp          (Omega)
/usr/bin/opl2ofm
/usr/bin/ovf2ovp
/usr/bin/ovp2ovf
/usr/bin/ofm2opl
/usr/bin/mkofm  (omega-related)
/usr/bin/pdfxtex (experimental)
/usr/bin/tangle
/usr/bin/tie
/usr/bin/ctangle 
/usr/bin/weave
/usr/bin/ctie
/usr/bin/cweave (CWEB stuff)
/usr/bin/dvicopy (for dvi processors that can't handle virtual fonts)
/usr/bin/dvitype (human "readable" output, for validation and as a reference implementation)
/usr/bin/gftype  (same for gf fonts)
/usr/bin/pooltype(same for pool files)
/usr/bin/pktype  (same for pk fonts)
/usr/bin/gftodvi (produces one-char-per-page dvi files from a gf font)
/usr/bin/patgen  (generate patterns for TeX hyphenation)
/usr/bin/dvired
/usr/bin/dvilj   
/usr/bin/dvilj2p 
/usr/bin/dvilj4  
/usr/bin/dvilj4l 
/usr/bin/dvilj6
/usr/bin/dvihp   (only needed for actual printing)
/usr/bin/dvipdft (should go with dvipdfm or stay with it)
/usr/bin/pfb2pfa (convert a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII))
/usr/bin/pk2bm   (create X11 bitmap from pk font)
/usr/bin/fontinst(manual tool)
/usr/bin/ps2frag (obsolete, PSfrag probably not used in automated typesetting)
/usr/bin/texlinks(only useful for local customization in Debian)
mpost, 
mpto, 
makempx          
/usr/bin/makempy (MetaPost)
texexec
/usr/bin/mptopdf
/usr/bin/texutil
/usr/bin/uniqleaf
/usr/bin/fdf2tan
/usr/bin/fdf2tex (ConTeXt)
pltotf, 
tftopl, 
vftovp, 
vptovf  (TFM/VF conversion)

Plus the links for formats not included in the new tetex-base.


Furthermore, I think that the following are probably not necessary

/usr/bin/mft     (translate mf to tex, for whatever purpose)
/usr/bin/pktogf  (convert packed font files to generic font files)
/usr/bin/gftopk  (and back)
/usr/bin/gsftopk (probably no longer needed, since xdvik links against libt1)
/usr/bin/ps2pk   (creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font)
/usr/bin/allcm
/usr/bin/allec
/usr/bin/allneeded (create many CM/EC pk fonts at once)
/usr/bin/dvi2fax (call gs to produce fax format, may be needed by
                  depending packages)


This one is probably useful, but not yet integrated for automatic usage:

/usr/bin/ttf2afm

These are only needed if cyrillic fonts are also in tetex-base:

/usr/bin/rubibtex
/usr/bin/rumakeindex

These are dependent on X:

/usr/bin/texfind
/usr/bin/texshow (ConTeXt help)

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