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Bug#485866: texlive-base-bin: mktexlsr in postinst: potential triggers candidate?



On Do, 12 Jun 2008, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > There is a version of tex-common in experimental having this
> > implemented for the updmap-sys runs and the update-language runs,
> > i.e. creating the language.dat file. We're looking for beta testers.
> 
> Cool - I'll try to have a peek at these at the weekend then - thanks!

Great if you do some testing, but it won't help you a lot immediately,
because:
- mktexlsr is NOT triggered, that I consider too hairy ATM
- only updmap-sys calls and fmtutil-sys calls when hyphenation patterns
  are installed
- with the current packages you will have an actual loss, because the
  triggers will start one updmap-sys call and the postinst off the font
  packages will start a second one

To circumvent that you would have to rebuild some font packages or
texlive-lang-* packages with the tex-common from experimental to
actually get a win situation.

I am planning to do that and put some packages into the same location as
the tex-common package:
	deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ triggers/
	deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ triggers/
(all signed with my gpg key).

But till now I didn't find time to build lmodern, cm-super, and some
texlive-lang packages using the new tex-common.

If you find time and energy to give some feedback that would be *really*
great!

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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