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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> 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.

Then we need to write a patch, since a configuration file in /usr/share
is a RC bug.

Regards, Frank

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