Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install
Hi all!
How do we continue with this bug. It seems to be the last really open RC
bug of the texlive packages (a side the etch-ignore and dummy bugs).
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> An alternative would be to teach fmtutil about "depending formats" and
> let it skip a format if there is no information for the depended-on
> format, just as it would skip that depended-on format itself.
On Die, 05 Jun 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Another alternative would be to teach update-* about these problems and
> do *not* include a snippet which depends on a not available format. But
> programming any of these solution seems to be quite hard.
>
> Or, we just do NOT search for an universal solution and hard code the
> xmltex and jadetex problems into either fmtutil of update-fontlang.
My current opinion is to hack update-fontlang and hard-code xmltex and
jadetex specifics into the the code, something like "if
10texlive-latex-base.cnf is not present, do not include xmltex and
jadetex snippets, finished".
That is a quick and dirty solution, but anything else require a lot (A
LOT) of programming/testing/debugging etc.
Any comments on this?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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