Debian bug report logs - #791, boring messages

Subject: Bug#791: To the TeX mantainer.
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From: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes)
To: debian-bugs@pixar.com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:47:45 SAT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Some problems I've found with TeX under Debian 0.93R5. Some are bugs,
others aren't.

 - The versions of LaTeX, AMSLaTeX, Babel et cetera are *OLD*. Newer
   versions of LaTeX have better support for 8-bit input (inputenc.sty),
   for example. The new version of AMSLaTeX, v1.2, is a great improvement
   over v1.1. (BTW, where are the AMSLaTeX docs? And the Babel docs?
   They're not under /usr/doc)

 - XDvi app-defaults are installed with wrong name (appended "-deb.tmp").
   This makes xdvi call MakeTeXPk in a wrong way (the mfmode string is
   defined in the app-defaults) that runs metafont for fontfiles that may
   already exist (if they were created by dvips, e.g., which makes the
   correct call to MakeTeXPk).

 - Install should ask what hyphenation patterns we want loaded by
   default. Should also ask what mfmode we want and what papersize.

 - Where is the beton package? (for use concrete and Euler math fonts.)

 - AucTeX command menu should be rightly configured. There is no command
   "LaTeX2e" in debian, for example. And what about the Command/print menu?
   Install should not ask about our TeX printers? I think that at least
   there should be some documentation telling us where to change this.

 - What is the path that xdvi/dvips uses for search pk files? It just
   looks for pk fonts under /var/spool/texmf/fonts? The fonts are
   not supposed to be moved to another place? If the are not, I suggest
   that fonts should be created under /var/lib/texmf/fonts. But maybe
   you decided this because of permision problems...

Besides the fact that I had to get ALL the LaTeX core, Babel, Graphics,
etc. from CTAN, I'm pretty happy with my TeX setup...

Waiting for you response. Regards, Emilio.

--
 Emilio C. Lopes                      FINPE, Instituto de Fisica
 E-mail: ecl@gluon.if.usp.br          Universidade de Sao Paulo

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes)
Subject: Bug#791: Acknowledgement (was: To the TeX mantainer.)
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Reassigning some unassigned packages

reassign 791 tex &c
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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Bug#791: marked as done (was: To the TeX mantainer.)

Your message dated Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:31:58 +0100 (MET)
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From: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes)
Subject: To the TeX mantainer.
To: debian-bugs@pixar.com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:47:45 SAT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]

Some problems I've found with TeX under Debian 0.93R5. Some are bugs,
others aren't.

 - The versions of LaTeX, AMSLaTeX, Babel et cetera are *OLD*. Newer
   versions of LaTeX have better support for 8-bit input (inputenc.sty),
   for example. The new version of AMSLaTeX, v1.2, is a great improvement
   over v1.1. (BTW, where are the AMSLaTeX docs? And the Babel docs?
   They're not under /usr/doc)

 - XDvi app-defaults are installed with wrong name (appended "-deb.tmp").
   This makes xdvi call MakeTeXPk in a wrong way (the mfmode string is
   defined in the app-defaults) that runs metafont for fontfiles that may
   already exist (if they were created by dvips, e.g., which makes the
   correct call to MakeTeXPk).

 - Install should ask what hyphenation patterns we want loaded by
   default. Should also ask what mfmode we want and what papersize.

 - Where is the beton package? (for use concrete and Euler math fonts.)

 - AucTeX command menu should be rightly configured. There is no command
   "LaTeX2e" in debian, for example. And what about the Command/print menu?
   Install should not ask about our TeX printers? I think that at least
   there should be some documentation telling us where to change this.

 - What is the path that xdvi/dvips uses for search pk files? It just
   looks for pk fonts under /var/spool/texmf/fonts? The fonts are
   not supposed to be moved to another place? If the are not, I suggest
   that fonts should be created under /var/lib/texmf/fonts. But maybe
   you decided this because of permision problems...

Besides the fact that I had to get ALL the LaTeX core, Babel, Graphics,
etc. from CTAN, I'm pretty happy with my TeX setup...

Waiting for you response. Regards, Emilio.

--
 Emilio C. Lopes                      FINPE, Instituto de Fisica
 E-mail: ecl@gluon.if.usp.br          Universidade de Sao Paulo

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes)
Subject: Bug#791 acknowledged by developer (was: To the TeX mantainer.)
References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951013112454.23320B-100000@ghyrrm.nus.pan-net.de> <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com>

This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report.

Responsibility for it has been taken by one of the developers, namely
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or email debian-bugs@pixar.com or myself.

Ian Jackson
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