Bug#390129: Rebuilding only provided formats - will that work? (was: Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts)

2006-10-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Ralf, hi Norbert, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to >>> change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> tetex-base would occur. If tetex-bin's postinst would call >> update-format, the problematic lines would not be present in fmtutil.cnf >> due to the present .dpkg-new file. > > I agree, we should get a tetex-bin

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 29 Sep 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: > A general point: Recently I was thinking whether it would make sense to > change the behaviour of 'format providing packages' such as tetex-base > or jadetex: Right now they regerenate all formats, even though this is > not necessary. Why not have them reg

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed in principle (see below). However, I think it is also important > that every package that calls fmtutil/updmap/... has to call the > apropriate update-* scripts before, which tetex-bin does not at the moment. > > Just imagine that instead of tetex-b

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Ralf Stubner
Frank Küster wrote: > Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't understand. Shouldn't tetex-bin call the update-* scripts before >> generating formats/map files/... >> >> [Looking into common.functions.in] >> >> It seems it doesn't. IMO that's the bigger problem. > > I think every pack

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> The assumption above is wrong, or at least short-sighted. updmap-sys >> and fmtutil-sys can only be called when tetex-bin is there. However, we >> *must* call the update script under all circumstances. Otherwise >> tetex-bin wil

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Ralf Stubner
Frank Küster wrote: > The assumption above is wrong, or at least short-sighted. updmap-sys > and fmtutil-sys can only be called when tetex-bin is there. However, we > *must* call the update script under all circumstances. Otherwise > tetex-bin will be without language information etc. I wonder

Bug#390129: tetex-base: Does not properly call update-* scripts

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Package: tetex-base Version: 3.0-22 Severity: serious Tags: pending >From postinst.in: # if tetex-base is upgraded while tetex-bin is already installed, we must # call mktexlr, and regenerate the formats and font maps. clean_texenvironment TEXINIT_P="" KPSEWHICH="" test -x `which