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Bug#393950: latex-hangul-ucs: overrides common TeX configuration



Package: latex-hangul-ucs
Version: 1:3.1.1-1
Severity: important

This package has a configuration file /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55UnFonts.cnf
which overrides tex-common's settings of TTFONTS:

TTFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/truetype//;/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts//

This violates a "should" clause of the Debian TeX policy:

,----
| Packages are free to add configuration items to the common
| configuration files, but they should not try to override configuration
| items that are supplied by other packages. Rather, shared
| configuration items should be supplied by the Basic TeX packages or
| any other package on which all involved packages depend, with a
| setting appropriate for all. If this is impractical, the involved
| packages must at least agree on the way different packages override
| other's settings[7].
`----

We should really try to come up with a setting for TTFONTS that makes
sense for all Tex packages that use TrueType fonts.  I can't even tell
which those are.  dvipdfmx?  ttf2pk from freetype1-tools? What else?

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

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



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