Re: Bug#397589: texlive-latex-extra does not contain beamer

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> No, the second argument contains a Debian binary package, as it is
> matched against the stringsin
> 	blacklist;tpm;foobar;in-which-bin-package
>
> The code of is_blacklisted:
>     # blacklist check
>     # either there is no blacklist entry, then it is ok
>     # if there is a blacklist entry and it is *, blacklist it
>     # if it is not *, and the $coll is not "", then match it
>     if (defined($PackageBlackList{$tpm}) &&
>             (($PackageBlackList{$tpm} eq "*") ||
>              (($coll ne "") && ($PackageBlackList{$tpm} =~ m/$coll/)))) {
>         return(1);
>     } else {
>         return(0);
>     }
> Ok, it is wrongly named the local variable, should be something else
> then $coll, but it is nothing else than a matching string.

Okay, I got it.  For beamer with 

blacklist;tpm;beamer;*

it doesn't make a difference, but for something like

blacklist;tpm;iwona;texlive-lang-polish

the effect is that the line is printed in every package (whose
collections include the tpm) except texlive-lang-polish.

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