Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank! > > On Don, 27 Apr 2006, Frank Küster wrote: >> Running update-updmap --quiet. This may take some time... done. >> Running update-language. This may take some time... done. >> Running update-fmtutil. This may take some time... done. >> >> This is the new version which doesn't have any post* maintainer scripts >> of its own, only debhelper generated ones. > > True, but do we really want to remove it? It might help in some cases > where *other* packages forgot to call in upon removal etc?
I don't think this is a valid pro-argument - it also means that bugs in other packages are harder to detect. >>From postrm-tex: > It doesn't hurt to call all of them. > So is it only for aestethic reasons of the output, or are your seriously > concerned that these 3 programs are always called? No, in fact these three are purely aesthetic. It was just that I noticed this while preparing the sponsored upload for thailatex, and - not knowing what exactly was called under which circumstances - I wanted to make sure to investigate this. > OTOH, the time intense stuff (updmap-sys, fmtutil-sys) is ONLY called if > necessary, only the three update-* are called unconditionally. Okay, now that I know this, I guess it's in fact unimportant. > Wishlist: Create a new dhit_ function which calls the argument progs and > only in error case outputs something. > > WOuld this be ok? That sounds sensible (although I'm not familiar with the code dh_installtex introduces, and can't contribute much insight here). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
