Bug#396823: tetex-bin: How useful is texconfig on a Debian system

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Géraud Meyer <geraud_meyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-23
> Severity: minor
>
> According to the teTeX doc texconfig and texconfig-sys modify files like
> updmap.cfg that, on a Debian system, are supposed to be generated by
> update-updmap for instance. So these commands seem not to be very useful
> for Debian, except maybe if they used updmap etc. that have been adapted
> to Debian. I do not know.
>
> It should be possible to decide whether a command is useful for a
> specific task by reading its man page, so could you add some information
> clearing up this ambiguity
> * in the man page of texconfig (like it has been done for updmap)
> * and in README.Debian that already vaguely mentions texconfig.
>
> Regards
>
> PS. I suppose this also applies to texlive-base-bin.

Thanks for reporting.  I think the short answer is "not very useful",
but on the other hand it might not even be too hard to fix it to make it
somewhat useful.

For the manpage to be corrected, one would have to investigate first...

Not much time at the moment... you know...

At least a general warning should be added to the manual page.

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