Re: Debian Bug#338046: whizzytex: einitex unavailable from tetex and no longer functions.
On 11.11.05 Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote:
Hi,
> > About manual, initex feature is there forever so manual doesn't
> > stop to mention initex feature. So this doesn't mean removal of
> > initex is premature. (even right now, if you call tex with the
> > name initex, it behaves as such.)
>
> I'd think documenting that in texk/web2c/man/tex.man et al might
> help. Since these commands have been available like this forever,
> please do take precaution and time when removing them.
>
bug filed.
> For example, releasing etch with a 'initex' that gives out
> a warning that 'initex is deprecated, use tex -ini instead'
> won't hurt.
>
But your postinst scripts will fail anyway....
> However, is whizzytex the only affected tool?
>
I guess all the others ar using fmtutil, but I'm not sure about that.
H.
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