Bug#427562: [BINGO FOUND] Launches forkbomb on upgrade/install

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> 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?

Have you an idea for the implementation?  It would be straigtforward to
extend the function which checks for the magic comment thing and let it
check whether 10tl-latex-base.cnf was already included if it comes to
40jadetex.cnf and NNxmltex.cnf.  

That is only a package-specific hack, but I guess the number of people
who have their own local latex-based formats should be quite small.

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