Bug#338874: Support use of kpsewhich --format fmt platex

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Package: whizzytex
Severity: wishlist

$ kpsewhich --format fmt platex
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/platex.fmt

FMT= value should be derived from the output of 
kpsewhich output, really.

At Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:17:06 +0100,
Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > anyway, the following changes will be applied to Debian whizzytex default
> > configuration to work around the problem.
> 
> ... and cause a new one sooner or later.
> 
> > -FMT=efmt
> > +FMT=fmt
> 
> As I said previously, and as it is documented in the Debian TeX Policy
> Draft, the format should not be hardcoded.  As you found out, the code I
> gave to you gives a wrong result on sarge, but that is a bug in the
> sarge teTeX packages that is fixed in sid, and you can rely on it not to
> reoccurr:  We introduced it deliberately to work around other package's
> bugs in sarge, but we won't do this again, but instead refer those
> packages to the TeX Policy.
> 
> Regards, Frank
> 
> -- 
> Frank Küster
> Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
> Debian Developer
>