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

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Fr, 08 Jan 2010, Frank Küster wrote:
> >     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.

I asked that Manuel, but it will not happen.

Best wishes

Norbert
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