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and subject line Re: Bug#578452: /usr/bin/mpost: not very useful without
mpost.mp/plain.mp
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Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-5
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/mpost
I'm not that familiar with Metapost, so I was confused by the errors I
got when I ran it: it was looking for mpost.mp, or failing that,
plain.mp, and didn't have them. Installing texlive-metapost made it
work.
Should mpost.mp and plain.mp move to texlive-binaries, or should mpost
move to texlive-metapost, or should texlive-binaries depend on or
recommend texlive-metapost, or something else?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libkpathsea5 2009-5 TeX Live: path search library for
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpoppler5 0.12.2-2 PDF rendering library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii tex-common 2.07 common infrastructure for building
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
texlive-binaries recommends no packages.
texlive-binaries suggests no packages.
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On Mo, 19 Apr 2010, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> I'm not that familiar with Metapost, so I was confused by the errors I
Then why do you wonder that something does not work?
> got when I ran it: it was looking for mpost.mp, or failing that,
> plain.mp, and didn't have them. Installing texlive-metapost made it
> work.
So what?
> Should mpost.mp and plain.mp move to texlive-binaries, or should mpost
> move to texlive-metapost, or should texlive-binaries depend on or
> recommend texlive-metapost, or something else?
texlive-metapost already depends on telxive-binaries, what else is
necessary here?
And no, texlive-binaries should NOT recommend texlive-metapost.
The packages that provide functionality are the texlive-* packages BUT
the texlive-binaries.
The -binaries package is here *only* for making only one arch depending
package and not the whole of texlive (thus duplicating thousands of
files/tons of space on the servers).
You can run mpost without plain.mp and whatever, just do
mpost -ini
and you can do whatever you want, so it is functional, definitely.
Closing this bug because I hate "wont-fix" tags, you can do whatever
you want with it, reopen, rename, reassign.
All the best
Norbert
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