Re: tex-common with triggers support

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mi, 11 Mär 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > the Debian TeX Team has uploaded tex-common 1.15 to unstable which
> > brings triggers support for font maps (calls to updmap-sys) and
> > hyphenation patterns (calls to fmtutil-sys --byfmt).
> 
> Great. \o/

Lenny is out, time for doing new things.

> > Those packages shipping fonts, ie those package calling dh_installtex
> > AND having some map files are advised to rebuild with tex-common 1.15
> > so that updmap-sys is not called two times (once from the postinst, once
> > from the trigger).
> 
> Shouldn’t the progress on this be tracked somehow? I’m not sure what
> would be best. There could be a mass bug filing using some usertag, but
> that may get out of sync if people make an upload without noticing the
> bug should be closed with it.

There aren't that many packages shipping updmap.d file: 
tex/cm-super
tex/cm-super-minimal
	our Team, already uploaded

tex/ko.tex-base
tex/ko.tex-extra

tex/latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp
tex/latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp
tex/latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp
tex/latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp
tex/latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab
tex/latex-cjk-thai

tex/latex-sanskrit

tex/littex

tex/lmodern
	our team, already prepared

tex/musixtex

tex/scalable-cyrfonts-tex

tex/texlive-base
tex/texlive-fonts-extra
tex/texlive-fonts-recommended
tex/texlive-games
tex/texlive-lang-african
tex/texlive-lang-arab
tex/texlive-lang-cyrillic
tex/texlive-lang-czechslovak
tex/texlive-lang-french
tex/texlive-lang-greek
tex/texlive-lang-hebrew
tex/texlive-lang-indic
tex/texlive-lang-mongolian
tex/texlive-lang-polish
tex/texlive-lang-vietnamese
tex/texlive-latex-base
tex/texlive-latex-extra
tex/texlive-math-extra
tex/texlive-omega
tex/texlive-pictures
	our team

tex/thailatex

tex/tipa

text/itrans

x11/gregoriotex


So that is not soo bad. And with hyphenation patterns it is even
simpler, besides texlive-* we have only littex and latex-cjk-chinese.

So I see no need here.

> Another option would be a lintian test that warns if the postinst calls
> updmap-sys but the package depends on text-common (>= 1.15). This would

I consider it not to problematic. And, there is a way that people
actually WANT to have that updmap-sys is called already very soon, if
the fonts are used in the postinstall itself (no idea if that ever will
actually occur). dh_installtex can be called with some option to disable
the trigger behaviour and make it behave as before.

So I don't see much hurry here, we are trying to update texlive packages
at some point, and the others hopefully will follow.

Best wishes

Norbert

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