Re: Open problems
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am a bit lost about what are the current real open problems:
>
> short term stuff:
> - do we still have to change/work on the conffile issue, is there
> something open? And if yes, what?
AFAICT nothing in the tetex-base postrm field. Your proposal of
dpkg-clean conffile handling (thread "handling of config files" with one
answer by me) still awaits implementation.
> - fork bomb jadetex/texlive #427562, lets hope that John Goerzen can
> provide insights
>
> long term stuff I want to see
> - documentation bugs/features
> . texdoc patch
> . texdoctk handling
> . dhelp/doc-base
dangling symlinks,...
> There are several bugs, one patch, ... how do we proceed here
step by step... I actually have started texdoc in Perl, conffile and
option handling are ready, but it currently does nothing than print the
usage message if requested...
> - libpaper integration
> the discussion stopped at some point, no idea where we are and what
> we have to do
It should be in the bug report. From my memory, the required steps are:
- make sure that dvips, pdftex, dvipdfm and xdvi know about the same
types of paper (i.e. patch texconfig and maybe some configuration
files)
- place a hook in libpaper.d which calls texconfig paper
- get one more call "fmtutil-sys --all". Maybe we should disable this
by default until dpkg triggers are reality? Oh, well, compared to
updmap-sys it's fast...
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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