Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:36 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> >> Under what circumstances are
> >> the files in there executed?
> >
> > When paperconfig is executed. Not when the libpaper1 package is
> > installed or upgraded, though (is this a bug?).
I guess we have to ask the libpaper maintainers how this is to be used
properly.
> Don't know. Should we call paperconfig in our postinst?
IMO the script placed in /etc/paperconf.d should exit, if paperconfig is
not installed. Then it should be possible to call this script during our
postinst without depending on libpaper-utils.
> >> 'texconfig paper $paper' configures dvipdfm and xdvi, too. So these
> >> lines are unnecessary. In addition, there is a debian specific patch in
> >> dvipdfm that makes it use libpaper directly. Should we remove that then?
> >
> > OK. Didn't realise that.
>
> I think if we try to configure most programs to use libpaper defaults,
> it is better to do it consistently. This means dvipdfm should use this
> method, too, and we can drop the patch. At least if the resulting
> functionality is identical; I cannot judge this.
The dvipdfm patch does two things. It increases the number of papersizes
known to dvipdfm and it adds support for libpaper. I would vote for
keeping the additional papersizes (maybe even propagating that part
upstream) but removing the direct libpaper suppport. In addition, I
would vote for only supporting "a4" and "letter" via a script in
/etc/paperconf.d. This would be a regression for dvipdfm, but to me
consistency is very important.
cheerio
ralf
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