Bug#561352: latex: generates bad aligned tables

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.12.09 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:

Hi,

> So what you need is a functionality in mktexpk to determine if a
> pk-file (to be read by xdvi) is older than the related mf source
> file.  I guess it is hard to implement, the only creteria would be
> the time stamps of the source and the created files.  Even if this
> is checked your generated file could be younger than the source
> file and it won't help you.  I don't know if it is possible to
> determine if a mf is the source of an existing pk file, I guess
> not.
> 
I guess an easy solution form the Debian side would be an
Debian.NEWS/debconf reminder that all previously generated pk/mtf
files should be deleted, as the sources *may* have changed, which can
cause weird effects (see this ticket).
In earliers times the generated files were below /var/cache and were
deleted by a cron job (no clue why this was changed by upstream).

H.
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