reassign 265743 debian-reference thanks On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Frank K�ster wrote: ... > In my opinion, the way debian-reference (and others?) worked around > tetex's poor language handling is plainly wrong.
Hmmm... Interesting. Come to think of it, our old workaround may need to be removed. I applied Koda-san's patch and it worked like a charm. I will upload updated package with this patch. So far it is building OK. > As far as I understand it, you want to generate pdf's in various > languages and need hyphenation enabled for each of them. Because of > teTeX's previously poor handling of languages, you enabled them in a > local format file you created during package build, right? > > - First of all, this is no longer needed. In a noninteractive or > hit-ENTER-always install, you get a language.dat with patterns enabled > for all available languages. You are right. I will fix it post-sarge. > - Instead of making a workaround in the package (namely, building a > local format file), you should have complained with the teTeX > maintainers earlier. Then we would probably have come up with the > "default-all" solution earlier. I will note this. (I was not smart enough to do this though...) > And, more importantly, do the problems still occur with > tetex-bin_2.0.2-18? As reported, error occured in tetex-bin_2.0.2-18. I was OK with -17. Regards, Osamu
