Bug#400058: texdoctk does not find any documentation
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 21:42 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> I think we can claim that this will solve the bug; it's not
>> a nice solution, but I don't see any drawbacks unless someone expects to
>> be able to copy the texdoctk from a Debian binary package and use it on
>> a different system.
>
> That is indeed the only drawback. And I think we can readily ignore
> that, even if some people don't understand that integrating a TeX
> distribution into a Linux distribution requires some changes. BTW, I
> think the changelog entry is not quite correct. This bug is not specific
> to systems with both tetex and texlive packages installed. Even on a
> pure tetex or pure texlive system currently no documentation in
> TEXMFDIST is found. This might even warrant a medium urgency.
Are you sure? On my system, it works as long as
/usr/share/texmf-texlive does not exist. It doesn't matter whether it
contains anything, just creating the directory breaks texdoctk. But
without it, it works (finds Fundamental/usrguide).
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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