Bug#622403: texlive-base: texdoctk silently fails to run
Package: texlive-base
Version: 2009-11
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Maybe this is a duplicate request, I'm not sure.
In teTeX we had little program tetex-xwarn^1 . It was similar to xmessage
but smaller. I idea was to tell the user that a programe could not be
started b/c of missing deps, instead of silently failing.
The example was texdoctk. W/o having perl-tk installed the program simply
does not start. When calling the program from a menu the error message will
be written on .xsession-errors, but the user won't ever see it. In this
case tetex-xwarn should pop up and tell the user he should install perl-tk^2
I think we should re-introduce that feature.
Hilmar
^1 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/new-manpages/tetex-xwarn.1
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/texdoctk-warn.c
^2 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/patches/patch-texdoctk
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##################################
minimal input file
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other files
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 hille users 1055 Sep 30 2007 /home/hille/.texmf/ls-R
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1495 Mar 26 13:50 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 25 2009 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 26 13:48 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 11 17:10 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 11 17:10 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 26 13:48 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5266 Mar 26 13:49 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11601 Mar 26 13:49 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4207 Mar 26 13:49 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
######################################
Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Mar 15 2009 mktex.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
f0e7f2914a62bebb906fb4f8555b6e2b /etc/texmf/texmf.d/04VARTEXFONTS.cnf
564cba5edb80b19f9a10646067b5e62e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
6e82a3d4c00ae7e4f86aa8dcf9438cf3 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
c60a084820a0b73e3bfbf2e90bda437c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
674be3ddc96e37e543fa7c030e266586 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
7ae52efac46feb97010986e57877d12e /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80DVIPDFMx.cnf
37329819f1109e8a457e64b8b58fecdb /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
a8952d594677235951d447665ec46e9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
402d5adb3864c09ed3cd80c0f2131361 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii luatex 0.60.2-1 next generation TeX engine
ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii tex-common 2.08.1 common infrastructure for building
ii texlive-binaries 2009-8 Binaries for TeX Live
ii texlive-common 2009-11 TeX Live: Base component
ii texlive-doc-base 2009-2 TeX Live: TeX Live documentation
Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii lmodern 2.004.1-3 scalable PostScript and OpenType f
Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii acroread [pdf-viewer] 9.4.2-0.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii evince [postscript-viewer] 2.30.3-2 Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
ii ghostscript [postscript-vie 8.71~dfsg2-9 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gv [postscript-viewer] 1:3.7.1-1 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
ii xpdf [pdf-viewer] 3.02-12 Portable Document Format (PDF) rea
ii xpdf-reader 3.02-12 Transitional package for xpdf
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii tex-common 2.08.1 common infrastructure for building
ii texlive-binaries 2009-8 Binaries for TeX Live
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