Bug#293442: tetex-base: broken symlink /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> schrieb:

> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> schrieb:
>> 
>> > Package: tetex-base
>> > Version: 2.0.2c-3
>> >
>> > The symlink /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map ->
>> > ../config/psfonts.map is broken: it should point to
>> > /etc/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map or
>> > /etc/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map.
>> 
>> Hm, no, in fact it should point to
>> /var/lib/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map. Do the proposed target files both
>> exist on your system? 
>
> Oh rubbish!  Sorry about my last email: no, /etc/texmf should have
> been /var/lib/texmf - you are right.

Okay. The one in base is a "compatibility symlink" - here, too, I don't
remember why we have it, but I remember that we decided to keep it in
2.0.2. 

> But whichever way, /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map is pointing
> to the wrong place.

Since current tetex-bin will not work without VARTEXMF in TEXMF, anyway,
I guess we can simply remove it.

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