Bug#427562: forkbomb: Workaround and request for comment on documentation
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:59:33PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've implemented a workaround, a special case for jadetex and xmltex, in
> update-fontlang. Here's a first draft for the documentation part in
> TeX-on-Debian:
>
> + <sect1 id="jadetex-xmltex-specialcase">
> + <heading>A special case in <prgn>update-fmtutil</prgn>:
> + Formats which are based on other formats</heading>
> + <p>
> + The JadeTeX and xmlTeX formats are built on top of LaTeX
> + and therefore require special treatment. This is done
> + automatically for the Debian packages for these formats.
> + However, local administrators who similarly base their
> + custom formats on LaTeX (or any other format) might need
> + to take special care, in particular when dist-upgrading.
> + </p>
> [...]
Sorry for dropping into the discussion so late. Is it reasonable to
treat any format which has an invocation line beginning with "&..." in
a similar way? Would that help to solve the problem more generally?
Julian
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