Bug#375922: texlive-common: Fixing this soon?

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Dylan Thurston <dthurston@barnard.edu> wrote:

> Any chance of fixing this one soon?  Now that texlive has become the
> default implementation, this bug wastes many more CPU cycles.  It's
> much worse in texlive than tetex, since there are so many more
> packages.

It's a tricky problem currently, and IMO will only be reasonable to
tackle when dpkg triggers are implemented.

People usually think it's easy to fix by "simply postponing the
updmap-sys run to the end", but they're wrong. If you do that, the
following can happen:

  - font package A is configured but updmap-sys is not run, since it
    is "simply postponed to the end of the dpkg run";

  - package B which depends on A is configured and tries e.g. to build a
    document with fonts shipped in A. This fails miserably, since
    updmap-sys wasn't run for A.

  - dpkg aborts and updmap-sys wasn't even run in the end.

-- 
Florent