Bug#699935: texlive-binaries: pdftex does not respect texconfig paper-size specification

[Norman Ramsey <nr@cs.tufts.edu>]

 > > I'm running plain TeX using 'pdftex', and it's producing A4 PDF.
 > > But I have configured it to use US letter paper both using
 > > texconfig interactively and by
 > > 
 > >         texconfig pdftex paper letter
 > > 
 > > Something is wrong with the configuration.
 > > 
 > sid:~# texconfig pdftex paper
 > WARNING: On Debian, this change will NOT be persistent
 > upon upgrades or changes to the libpaper settings!
 > Usage: texconfig pdftex paper PAPER
 > 
 > Valid PAPER settings:
 >   a4 letter

On my Debian stable system I get

  : nr@homedog 10073 ; sudo texconfig pdftex paper
  Usage:
         texconfig pdftex paper PAPER

            Valid PAPER settings: Same as for dvips, use
              texconfig dvips paper-list
            to get a list of valid PAPER values.

         texconfig pdftex paperconf
         texconfig pdftex mode MODE


 > When trying to configure is using texconfig-dialog you'll get a
 > warning, that you should use paperconf instead.

And I get

  : nr@homedog 10068 ; sudo paperconfig -p letter
  : nr@homedog 10069 ; 

Perhaps because /etc/papersize was already set to 'letter'?


In any case, these changes do not affect the pdftex on my system.
Perhaps I should install the texlive package from wheezy, but right
now I am not deadline and cannot do that.

 > Does this convince you?

Sure, I'm convinced.  I'm happy for this bug to be closed.