Debian Bug report logs - #133200
tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@po.airs.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <maintonly@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX

Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:22:44 +0900

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-3.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Is it possible to add the following items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf? 

I maintain ptex-* packages, which contain ASCII pTeX(one of Japanized TeX
implementation).  To make kpathsea search for those pTeX .sty files etc., I
wrote a little script to add paths into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and call it from
postinst or by hand.  But a guy pointed out that it's Serious Policy Violation
and filed a RC(see Bug#125793).  Also some users complain that it's annoying
to modify texmf.cnf manually whenever tetex-bin is upgraded and texmf.cnf is
overwritten. I guess including the following paths into tetex-bin's texmf.cnf
beforehand will fix these problems.

--- texmf.cnf.orig	Sun Feb 10 20:42:43 2002
+++ texmf.cnf	Sun Feb 10 20:47:19 2002
@@ -174,6 +174,12 @@
 TEXINPUTS.lambda = .;$TEXMF/{omega,tex}/{lambda,latex,generic,}//
 TEXINPUTS.omega = .;$TEXMF/{omega,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
 
+% ASCII pTeX (for Japanese).
+TEXINPUTS.amsptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{amstex,plain,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.iniptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.platex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{platex,latex,generic,}//
+TEXINPUTS.ptex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex,tex}/{plain,generic,}//
+
 % Context macros by Hans Hagen:
 TEXINPUTS.context = .;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}//
 
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux shangri-la 2.4.17 #1 2002ǯ 2·î 7Æü ÌÚÍËÆü 08:33:28 JST i686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debianutils           1.15.2             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                  1.9.19             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                    0.2-19             The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                 2.2.5-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libkpathsea3          1.0.7+20011202-3.1 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng2               1.0.12-3           PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2. 1:2.95.4-2         The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libtiff3g             3.5.5-6            Tag Image File Format library
ii  libxaw7               4.1.0-14           X Athena widget set library
ii  tetex-base            1.0.2+20011202-2   basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                 4.1.0-14           X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                1:1.1.3-19         compression library - runtime

Message #10 received at 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@po.airs.net>

To: 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#133200: Acknowledgement of maintainer-only report (tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX)

Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:36:13 +0900

I forgot to tell you, I can offer an NMU.

Message #15 received at 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>

To: mhatta@po.airs.net, 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Cc: dancer@netfort.gr.jp

Subject: Re: Bug#133200: tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:05:06 +0900

From: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@po.airs.net>
Subject: Bug#133200: tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:22:44 +0900

> Is it possible to add the following items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf? 

I think this is only a temporary solution and I guess
that tetex should provide a mechanism so that any TeX
related package could add appropriate settings to texmf.cnf

It might be the best if we could generate texmf.cnf
from auxiliary files (like update-vfontcap?), I guess.

I think this is a very serious problem of teTeX so please
show us any idea you have.

Best regards,			2002.2.12

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.

Message #20 received at 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>

To: mhatta@po.airs.net, 133200-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Cc: dancer@netfort.gr.jp

Subject: Re: Bug#133200: tetex-bin: Please add these items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX

Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:36:07 +0900

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From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Bug#133200: tetex-bin: Please add these items to  /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf for ASCII pTeX
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:05:06 +0900

> > Is it possible to add the following items to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf? 
> 
> I think this is only a temporary solution and I guess
> that tetex should provide a mechanism so that any TeX
> related package could add appropriate settings to texmf.cnf
> 
> It might be the best if we could generate texmf.cnf
> from auxiliary files (like update-vfontcap?), I guess.
> 
> I think this is a very serious problem of teTeX so please
> show us any idea you have.

Hi all,

it seems no one would propose any concrete idea, I tried 
rough sketch borrowed from update-vfontcap.

It is true that these are very naive so please anyone refine
them.  

Bsic idea is to separate the original texmf.cnf into several
parts in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and to cat them with update-texmf 
script.  So any TeX related package, for example ptex-bin, can 
add appropriate settings to the generated texmf.cnf if ptex-bin
provides /etc/texmf/texmf.d/20ptex with the appropriate settings.

Further, if 20ptex is a real conffile then it will remain after
removing ptex-bin so it might be better that ptex-bin will generate
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/20ptex with its postinst and remove it with
prerm in case remove.

Everyone, please take this issue seriously; if teTeX does not
provide this kind of mechanism, several TeX related packages
will be with RC bug.  (one of them will be my ptex-jtex ;-)

I attached update-texmf and sample separated texmf.cnf's.

# I am testing with the generated texmf.cnf since yesterday
# and it seems to work....

Best regards,		2002.2.24

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.

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Message #27 received at 133200-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>

To: 133128-done@bugs.debian.org, 133200-done@bugs.debian.org, 138791-done@bugs.debian.org, 64914-done@bugs.debian.org, 69600-done@bugs.debian.org, 75265-done@bugs.debian.org, 90691-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: These bugs are fixed

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:07:40 +0100

This was the changes file which should have closed these bug reports ....

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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:13:20 +0900
Source: tetex-bin
Binary: tetex-bin libkpathsea-dev libkpathsea3
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-5.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>
Description: 
 libkpathsea-dev - kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX
 libkpathsea3 - shared libkpathsea for teTeX
 tetex-bin  - teTeX binary files
Closes: 64914 69600 75265 90691 133128 133200 138791
Changes: 
 tetex-bin (1.0.7+20011202-5.1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * stop to install texmf.cnf as a real file but, instead, install separated
     files in texmf.d/* and run update-texmf to generate texmf.cnf
     Accordingly we modified texconfig so that it will modify 05TeXMF instead
     of texmf.cnf directly.  So remove texmf.cnf from conffiles and add
     separated counterparts.  (closes: #69600, #133200)  [kohda@debian.org]
   * stop to install fmtutil.cnf as a real file but, instead, install it in
     fmt.d/00tetex.cnf and run update-fmtutil to generate fmtutil.cnf
     So remove fmtutil.cnf from conffiles.  (closes: #64914)  [kohda@debian.org]
   * change TEXMFLOCAL to /usr/local/share/texmf and also add TEXMFOLDLOCAL
     for consistency.  (closes: #75265)  [kohda@debian.org]
   * modify rules so that it removes texk/web2c/pdftexdir/Makefile
     (closes: #133128)  [kohda@debian.org]
   * fix xdvi wrapper (xdvi-sh) so it can decompress *.Z files now.
     (closes: #138791)  [kohda@debian.org]
   * fix cron.daily so that it will update all necessary directories.
     (closes: #90691)  [kohda@debian.org]
Files: 
 e6813971b684ff6aef454f301916157e 926 tex standard tetex-bin_1.0.7+20011202-5.1.dsc
 2e11eab435f6bbab543ee0f1a1f8fd99 36208 tex standard tetex-bin_1.0.7+20011202-5.1.diff.gz
 56e568ba334b6b4866ed8b31c64e9b2f 3125952 tex optional tetex-bin_1.0.7+20011202-5.1_i386.deb
 b4d1c08a711a08b0db7e136a1a619d04 39604 libs optional libkpathsea3_1.0.7+20011202-5.1_i386.deb
 7dedde7fd6439597d1bef413c007276f 62518 devel optional libkpathsea-dev_1.0.7+20011202-5.1_i386.deb

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