Bug#421184: updmap machinery is not robust enough

[David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2007-4
Severity: wishlist

Please get rid of the updmap machinery, or at least, make it more
robust.

On most major LaTeX updates the update machinery fails and a manual
syncwithtree or updmap-sys is necessary. 

This is with locally installed fonts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  texlive-base-bin              2007-5     TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii  texlive-common                2007-4     TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-doc-base              2007-2     TeX Live: Base documentation

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
pn  dvipdfmx                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  lmodern                       1.010x-3   scalable PostScript and OpenType f

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           2.0021     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin                     2007-4     TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)

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