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

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

OK. I was confused because I thought for a moment that tex-common
contained the little programs such as kpsewhich and mktexlsr. It is now
clear.

Thanks.

-- 
Florent