Re: latex.info missing

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 03.04.07 Jörg Sommer (joerg@alea.gnuu.de) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> in which package is latex.info? The files comes with the TL 2007
>> distribution, but I can't find it in a Debian package.
>> 
> In unstable it is in texlive-latex-base, in the exp. version of it,
> the file is missing :-(.

I found the reason, it's a line in tpm2deb.cfg which I do not
understand:

# MAPPINGS AND SPECIALS
#
mapping;.*/[^/]*\.info;;
special;.*/([^/]*\.info);install-info;

The first one has the result that latex.info is not installed,
tpm2deb-bin.pl with --debug tells us:

DESTINATION NAME = texmf-texlive/doc/info/latex.info
REMAP HIT f=texmf/doc/info/latex.info
newdest=
pat=.*/[^/]*\.info
dest=
:empty:

I think the mapping line should instead be 

mapping;.*/([^/]*\.info);remap;$rundest/info/

But then (it seems) the next line needs to be changed, too -
tl-latex-base's postinst does not call install-info.

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