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Bug#717148: texlive-base: Unformatted table in updmap(1)



Hi,

On Mi, 17 Jul 2013, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> [Apologies if I should have reported this bug upstream; I can’t tell
> immediately whether updmap (which is deprecated upstream in favour of
> tlmgr) is a Debianism or not. The man page says bugs should be

??? What are you telling me? Wrong.

tlmgr does *not* deprecate updmap. Actually tlmgr calls updmap.
tlmgr is a completely different thing. (Again one of those, please
read the man page!)

> reported to tex-k@tug.org, but the script is a recent creation by a Debian
> maintainer. If I got it wrong I’ll happily redirect the report.]

And this Debian Developer by chance is also the author of tlmgr, and
of the new updmap. So yes, upstream is better.

> The following text in updmap(1) seems to be a table, but is not marked
> up and hence comes out as a jumbled paragraph:

Because it is generated from help2man, and that seems to be unable
to translate this properly.

We will check what we can do.

Norbert

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