Package: texlive-base-bin Version: 2005.dfsg.2-10 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/texlinks
This is a reminder and a summary of a IRC discussion between Norbert and me. texlinks is not useful at all on a Debian system, since it tries to create symlinks to the engines in /usr/bin, one line for each format. This is dpkg's realm, and symlinks should be in the debs. Either texlinks should be enhanced to create symlinks from /usr/local/bin to the engines, or not installed at all. Since changing it would require considerable work, while there has never been any user request, we thought we should rather not install it. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages texlive-base-bin depends on: ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-5.1 PDF rendering library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.3-1 TeX Live: Base component ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages texlive-base-bin recommends: ii perl-tk 1:804.027-7 Perl module providing the Tk graph Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 2.0018.1 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages texlive-base-bin is related to: pn tetex-base <none> (no description available) pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available) pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: tex-common/check_texmf_missing: -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)