Re: Bug#352630: texinfo: kpsewhich cannot open shared object libkapthsea.so.4

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> But checking the exit code of "kpsewhich 2>/dev/null" is equivalent and
>> probably easier to understand in case somebody else has to read the
>> code... 
>
> Doesn't all this mean that tex-common should depend on libkpathsea4?

I don't think so, because the binaries that tex-common provides do not
use libkpathsea - it just includes update-texmf and update-fontlang with
its symlinks (and dh_installtex{,fonts}.  The problem only arises
because the fonts depend only on tex-common and call updmap-sys only
when it is available (i.e. when used together with a TeX system.

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