Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea

2006-12-08 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 06.12.06 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06.12.06 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, > >> I agree. However, before submitting a bugreport I'd like to know > >> whether this problem still exists. Does anyone have a linux sour

Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Küster
retitle 396835 libkpathsea: could remove trailing slashes from environment variables reassign 396835 libkpathsea severity 396835 normal thanks -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Küster
Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06.12.06 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > >> > This symlink is an absolute reference to the source tree on the >> > builder's machine. How could that possibly be useful on anyone else's >> > random machine? If it were a symlink to /

Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea (was: Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h))

2006-12-06 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 06.12.06 Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, > > This symlink is an absolute reference to the source tree on the > > builder's machine. How could that possibly be useful on anyone else's > > random machine? If it were a symlink to /usr/src/linux* that would be > > a different story.

Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea (was: Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h))

2006-12-06 Thread Frank Küster
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > echo $HOME >> >> >> >> /home/hrw/ >> > >> > That's not: $HOME should not have a trailing slash. >> >> Should this be documented somewhere more clearly? Or can we just assume >> a sane setting, at least for the TeX packages? > > This we should eit