Bug#291541: tetex-base should not create /usr/local/lib/texmf, but /usr/local/share/texmf

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Subject: tetex-base should not create /usr/local/lib/texmf, but /usr/local/share/texmf
Package: tetex-base
Version: 2.0.2c-3
Severity: normal

Hans Ekbrand <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> wrote:

> Hi list!
>
> I see that $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf. However,
> when the original author of getlatex tested my modified version of
> getlatex it became apparent that /usr/local/share/texmf did not exist
> on his Debian system. It seems that only /usr/local/lib/texmf is
> created automatically in the postinst of tetex-base
[...]
> Since $TEXMFLOCAL defaults to /usr/local/share/texmf, why not create
> that dir automatically?

This is in fact a bug, many thanks for pointing that out.

> May I suggest that you include getlatex or another script with similar
> functionality in /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/examples/ ?

Hm, you should suggest this to Thomas Esser, the one who puts teTeX
together. However, this script only works for a limited set of packages,
and it doesn't install the documentation. Personally, I find it of very
little use.

There is a ctan2tds script in the tex-live distribution, and it would be
really great if this could be generalised, and be used to install or
update new packages from CTAN intoe the LOCALTEXMF tree.

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