Bug#607351: texlive-binaries: texdoc aliasing sometimes doesn't work

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

reassign 607351 texlive-base
thanks

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Le 17/12/2010 10:00, Frank Küster a écrit :
>> Package: texlive-binaries
>
> Btw, I tried installing this on a squeeze box, and it doesn't seem to provide
> texdoc. I found it in texlive-base.

Sorry, you are right. Reassigning

> Texdoc doesn't look for the configuration file where it actually is (or
> conversly, the config file isn't were texdoc expects it). So, the two obvious
> (and mutually exclusive) solutions are:
>
> 1. symlink texdoc.cnf under TEXMFMAIN rather than TEXMFDIST
> 2. 'patch' config.tlu with "sed -i s/TEXMFMAIN/TEXMFDIST/g" (I just checked, it
> doesn't have any side effects).
>
> I guess 1 is the easiest, but I'm not sure how you handle TEXMFMAIN vs TEXMFDIST
> in Debian, so...

Thanks for the info and analysis.  In the past, we've tried to separate
TEXMFMAIN and TEXMFDIST differently from upstream:  TEXMFDIST is for
texlive packages, texmfmain is for other Debian packages (in order to
allow them to shadow our files, if they keep more frequent update
cycles).

However, there have always been some things that we left in TEXMFMAIN,
in particular stuff in web2c which would have required patching
binaries.  

So it's not trivial to decide, although it seems to me that the "Debian
way" would be to patch texdoc.tlu.

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