Re: Debian Bug#338046: whizzytex: einitex unavailable from tetex and no longer functions.
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> > 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....
>
> It's not only postinst scripts that will use initex.
> initex is a well-known interface for generating
> dumps with tex.
Many obsolete things are well-known. It's a good idea to provide an
initex script that will echo "please use tex --ini", but Debian packages
will still have to switch to the new (as of 1990 or so) ways.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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