Hi, first of all sorry for this late reply.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: debian-reference > > Severity: serious > > Version: 1.08-4 > > > >>From my pbuilder build log: > > > > ... > > ln -sf fix.txt.ent fix.ent > > debiandoc2text -l $(echo ja | bin/getlocale) quick-reference.ja.sgml > > bin/fixtxt ja quick-reference.ja.txt > > TEXINPUTS=3D$(pwd)/texmf/:$(kpsetool -n pdftex -p tex) \ > > pdftex -ini pdflatex.ini > /dev/null > > make[1]: *** [pdflatex.fmt] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/debian-reference-1.08' > > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 > > I have looked into the makefile, and although I don't understand it > completely, the approach to using LaTeX seems fundamentally flawed. > Instead of building local formats, it would have been better to ask us > teTeX maintainers to enable those languages. Yes, you wrote this already in #265743. Since all languages are already supported in Sarge by default and www-waster (which creates DDP documents?) was upgraded to Sarge this week, I will remove the explicit format file creation. It was indeed not a nice solution but was useful in the past. tetex-base (2.0.2a-2) unstable; urgency=low * By default, enable all hyphenation patterns in language.dat [frank] -- Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:55:50 +0200 Frank, I really don't understand why you think including all hyphenanation patterns by default should be requested from teTeX maintainers in the past. First of all languages.dat is a config file you knew about. Also I remember that LaTeX was always proud to need only very little resources such as RAM. And I also never assumed that one little project needing minor changes would influence a large package such as tetex. And the most important reason was always that a config file can be changed by users so that it was the easiest way to ensure all requirements myself. > Now if it turns out that you still use languages that are not enabled or > even existent in tetex in sid, the mechanisms for local formats > described in the Debian TeX Policy Draft should be used - please look at > the tex-common package. I will look at this but most probably I will ignore it and remove the special language handling. It caused trouble in the past and the default should be OK. > Second, it doesn't make sense to build the formats twice, once by > calling an engine with -ini directly, and a second time using fmtutil. This should not happen. You are aware that # indicates a comment, right :-) TEXINPUTS=$$(pwd)/texmf/; \ pdfetex -ini pdftex.ini > /dev/null # fmtutil --byfmt pdftex --fmtdir . Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]