Bug#563460: texlive-base: Wrong location for texdoc.cnf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

[I'm still mostly VAC, but reading some mails in order to not be bumped
on the head by the sheer mass of them in a couple of days...]

Jean-Sébastien Trottier <jst@qualipsoft.com> wrote:

> texdoc -d reveals:
>     texdoc debug-files: Configuration files are:
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /home/jst/texmf/texdoc/texdoc-bin.cnf
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /home/jst/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /home/jst/texmf/texdoc/texdoc-dist.cnf
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /usr/local/share/texmf/texdoc/texdoc-bin.cnf
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /usr/local/share/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf
>     texdoc debug-files: absent      /usr/share/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf
>
> However, texlive-base installs texdoc.cnf here:
>     /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texdoc/texdoc.cnf

I think this is a bug in texdoc, or some library it uses.  If a file is
searched in a texmf tree, it should use kpathsea, or at least try to
emulate its behavior.  In other words, it should also search the file in
TEXMFCONFIG and TEXMFSYSCONFIG.

The latter is the proper place for the file in Debian.

Regards, Frank


-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg