Author: frank
Date: 2006-08-23 20:10:20 +0000 (Wed, 23 Aug 2006)
New Revision: 1578
Modified:
tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.pdf
tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
Log:
* Add a paragraph to the Policy how to handle format creation when
latex.fmt or other basic formats are needed [frank]
Modified: tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog 2006-08-23 16:03:22 UTC (rev 1577)
+++ tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog 2006-08-23 20:10:20 UTC (rev 1578)
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
tex-common (0.27.1) unreleased; urgency=low
* Fix spelling of "medium" in the last upload
- * Remove jadetex settings from texmf.d (closes: #384333)
+ * Remove jadetex settings from texmf.d (closes: #384333) [frank]
+ * Add a paragraph to the Policy how to handle format creation when
+ latex.fmt or other basic formats are needed [frank]
- -- Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:02:46 +0200
+ -- Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:09:37 +0200
tex-common (0.27) unstable; urgency=medium
Modified: tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.pdf
===================================================================
(Binary files differ)
Modified: tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml
===================================================================
--- tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml 2006-08-23 16:03:22 UTC (rev
1577)
+++ tex-common/trunk/doc/Debian-TeX-Policy.sgml 2006-08-23 20:10:20 UTC (rev
1578)
@@ -949,6 +949,64 @@
programs)
</p>
<p>
+ If an add-on package generates a format upon installation that
+ needs a base format (e.g. latex.fmt), it must not load the
+ existing base format
+<footnote>
+The reason is that, in order to avoid other
+problems, <prgn>update-fmtutil</prgn> ignores files
+in <file>/etc/texmf/fmt.d</file> that have a
+corresponding <file>.dpkg-new</file> file, and that it is necessary to
+recreate all formats when basic input files, pool files or engines are
+updated. Thus, all Basic TeX packages call <tt>fmtutil --all</tt> in
+their postinst scripts. When <package>tetex-base</package>
+and <package>tetex-bin</package> are upgraded together while a package
+that loads <file>latex.fmt</file> is installed and configured - the
+same can happen with corresponding TeXLive packages -,
+then <package>tetex-base</package>'s postinst will
+call <prgn>update-fmtutil</prgn> and <prgn>fmtutil</prgn>
+while <package>tetex-bin</package> is still unconfigured and has
+a <file>.dpkg-new</file> file. Consequently, no format information
+for LaTeX is available, and the generation of the format that wants to
+load <file>latex.fmt</file> would fail. However, since all files
+needed to create <file>latex.fmt</file> are available, the depending
+format can <tt>\input</tt> <file>latex.ini</file> and create its own
+format without problems.
+</footnote>.
+Instead the <file>fmtutil.cnf</file>
+ snippet and the <file><var>format</var>.ini</file> file must
+ be changed so that the process of format creation is repeated.
+ For example, if upstream creates their format by loading
+ latex:
+<example>
+latex pdfetex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx
*latex.ini
+jadetex etex language.dat &latex jadetex.ini
+</example>
+and the following <file>jadetex.ini</file> file:
+<example>
+\input jadetex.ltx
+\dump
+</example>
+ then the Debian package maintainer must
+ load <file>latex.ini</file> instead of <file>latex.fmt</file>,
+ making sure that <tt>\dump</tt> in <file>latex.ltx</file> has
+ no effect, and create the following
+ new <file>jadetex.ini</file>:
+<example>
+\let\savedump\dump
+\let\dump\relax
+\input latex.ini
+\let\dump\savedump
+
+\input jadetex.ltx
+\dump
+</example>
+ and the following snippet for <file>fmtutil.cnf</file>:
+<example>
+jadetex etex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *jadetex.ini
+</example>
+ </p>
+ <p>
Local administrators can override settings from
<file>texmf.cnf</file> with environment variables; this has
sometimes lead to errors in <file>postinst</file> scripts. It
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