From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 02:13:50 -0500
> > Perhaps you are happy because you would live happily with only > > original TeX. Did you ever try to install jadetex, xmltex, > > alml,jtex, ptex, dvipsk-ja etc. and make them work fine? > > You, sir, are a moron. Yes, I do use jade and tools. You are > not the only one who actually know TeX. Descending to trying to prove > you know more TeX than anyone else in the world shows the paucity of > your arguments. It is okay how you understand what I told you but the fact is; if one is a maintainer of tetex, one has gotten many bugs or requests from maintainers of related packages. I only pointed out #125793 in which a maintainer explained (about modifying texmf.cnf in its postinst) I admit this is an important bug, but also believe it's not serious enough to prevent ptex-bin from going into woody. Anywise there are a bunch of packages which modify texmf.cnf or other TeX-related conffiles, so more general solution is needed for tetex-bin. and #70581 where someone who wanted to package extra fonts requested; You need to put a .map file in /etc/texmf/dvips and then add the file name to /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap to the variable extra_modules. Thus adding and removing can not be done in a trivial and automated way. or a direct request like; From: Hesham Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ArabTeX Problem, Suggestion, and Solution Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 00:27:15 -0500 > "psfonts/". In there, you just need to copy the two pfb files to a directory > aptly named "/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/arabtex/", and then add the two > lines in the file named "arabtex.map" to the bottom of the file named > "/usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map". All it says is really: > -- start snippet -- > xnsh14 xnsh14 <xnsh14.pfb > xnsh14bf xnsh14bf <xnsh14bf.pfb > -- end snippet -- > Then run "texhash", and everything works beautifully. My basic request is > that you please add this to your package by default as it really fixes > everything for everyone. Also, you could mention in a README a quick note on and then naturally one will try to provide a necessary mechanism as a maintainer of tetex, I believe. Of couse I didn't know all these (except ptex-bin) from the beginning but as time passes I became familiar with these issues and have tried to fix these. That' all. > > Fine, then it is easy to discuss. Did you use kpathsea mechanism > > which was fairy recent feature? Did you use "//" in TEXINPUTS > > etc. which was also fairy recent feature? > > Of course. The fact that you think these old texpathsea > mechanims are esoteric implies that your TeX usage is rusty. I only want to say that even you has had an experience to reset your texmf.cnf and adopted new mechanism before. Thanks, 2003-4-21(Mon) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
