Oliver-Mark Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > >> [...] >> >> Strange that it says "(/usr/bin/amstex", on my system it's "(./amstex". >> But anyway. > > Does tex translate any filename into realnames?
Pardon? What do you mean with this question? >> Hm, I don't think this makes sense, or is even doable. It's a feature >> that TeX reads files in the current directory - a feature that can also >> be used for generating customized formats. >> >> On the other hand it (the feature) probably doesn't make any sense in >> the post-installation script. We could fix this by changing directory >> to / or /tmp. But we cannot be sure that there isn't a file "amstex" in >> any of these directories. >> >> I think it isn't unreasonable to expect that someone wants to create a >> file "amstex" in /tmp, for whatever reason. But I can't think of a >> reason to change directory to /usr/bin. Why did you do it? >> > > I was packaging own debian-Packages (some python modules and own > programs) and checked the installations scripts. This doesn't belong > to any normal upgrades ;-) I still don't see a reason to change the current directory to /usr/bin/. > I know about this "feature" and sometimes > I'm not happy about this, but it is a feature not a bug ;-) But anyway > to switch to a "neutral" directory would help. Well, as I said it would cause other breakage (you can't have a file "amstex" in /tmp/ any more, or wherever). > PS: I don't send this mail to the BTS because there is no new > information regarding the BUG I posted. No new information about your system; but the question is still open whether we need to change anything or not. Obviously you think that the bug shouldn't just be closed (which I would personally prefer), so the discussion what to do instead and why is relevant for that bug, and should be archived? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
