Re: removal of texconfig from Debian packages

[Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> On Mi, 23 Mai 2012, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> Really?  I certainly did so in the past, when most fonts were
>> bitmapped and auto-generated by metafont on the fly.  I used mode to
>> ensure that my printer was well-served.
>
> When was that the last time?

I frequently needed the effect of "texconfig dvips offset" (although
personally, I edited the file directly). 

> But since texconfig is deprecated in TeX Live, too, I am not
> spending time on this.

Will it be removed?  Are there already replacements for the things that
would get lost?  

Does tcfmgr have a replacement for texconfig conf?

Regards, Frank