Re: Changes to the Policy

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Fre, 25 Nov 2005, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > +TEXMFDIST = /usr/share/texmf-{tetex;texlive}
>> 
>> According to the kpathsea info page, the separator for brace expansion
>> is the comma, not semicolon.
>
> Hmm, I thought I read that you can use both, I will fix it.

I'm not sure, there could be different information at a different
place... 

>> I recall that we discussed this, but don't remember why we stopped to
>> use the complete TEXMF list for TEXMFDBS.  I now see a disadvantage:
>
> Because we don't want to have ls-R files /etc/texmf (which could be ro).

ACK.

>> mktexlsr now does no longer create (and worse, update) ls-R files in my
>> homedirectory. 
>
> Do you actually *want* ls-R files there? I always hated them, because
> they are always out of date and I always forget to call mktexlsr.

I usually don't forget it; but I agree that they can be dropped.  We
should point that out in NEWS.Debian, though.

BTW, I have just added a remark to tetex-bin's NEWS.Debian, referring
readers to tex-common's (because with apt-listchanges, tex-common's NEWS
file will not be shown upon upgrade from sarge).

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