Bug#365070: tex-common: dh_installtex: upon removal, runs update-* even if not needed

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Don, 27 Apr 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Package: tex-common
>> Version: 0.20bpo1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Removing thailatex ...
>> Running update-updmap --quiet. This may take some time... done.
>> Running update-language. This may take some time... done.
>> Running update-fmtutil. This may take some time... done.
>> Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
>> Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
>> 
>> This is the new version which doesn't have any post* maintainer scripts
>> of its own, only debhelper generated ones.
>
> You mean the running of update-language and update-fmtutil. Ok, will be
> fixed, although it is so fast that nobody will mind ;-)

Yes, it's fast, but its also aesthetically dissatisfatorily...  And I
suspect that it would also unconditionally run updmap-sys, even if
dh_installtex is only used to create formats - and *this* takes time.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)