Debian bug report logs - #791 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#791: To the TeX mantainer. Reply-To: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-From: ecl%gluon@meson.if.usp.br (Emilio C. Lopes) Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 20:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 20:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 041119491120546; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:49:11 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rylus-0005q5C; Tue, 11 Apr 95 12:48 PDT Received: from gluon (meson.if.usp.br) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA03981 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:47:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com> Received: by gluon (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA07703; Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:47:46 -0300 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: 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.) In-Reply-To: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com> References: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#791" or "Re: Bug#791" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the pseudo-header following the real mail header), or didn't have a psuedo-header at all. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From thor.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Mon Sep 11 10:40:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0ssCqR-000FBsC; Mon, 11 Sep 95 10:40 PDT Received: from hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25691 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:40:20 -0700 Received: by hammer.thor.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #77) id m0ssBbk-000JfCC; Mon, 11 Sep 95 17:21 BST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 17:21 BST From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com Subject: Reassigning some unassigned packages reassign 791 tex &c reassign 1241 adduser reassign 1303 binutils reassign 518 ispell, wenglish reassign 1190 ispell reassign 651 libgrdev reassign 702 findutils reassign 1093 lpr reassign 1087 diffutils reassign 1212 ppp reassign 1102 tar reassign 1252 texlib reassign 421 term ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Nils Rennebarth In-Reply-To: References: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com> Subject: Bug#791: marked as done (was: To the TeX mantainer.) Your message dated Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:31:58 +0100 (MET) with message-id and subject line Bug#791: To the TeX mantainer has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. It is your now responsibility to ensure that the bug report is dealt with. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail id 041119491120546; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:49:11 GMT From meson.if.usp.br!ecl%gluon Tue Apr 11 12:48:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0rylus-0005q5C; Tue, 11 Apr 95 12:48 PDT Received: from gluon (meson.if.usp.br) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA03981 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:47:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199504111947.AA03981@pixar.com> Received: by gluon (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA07703; Tue, 11 Apr 95 16:47:46 -0300 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: 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: <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 Nils Rennebarth . You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly, if you have not already done so. If not, please contact them directly, or email debian-bugs@pixar.com or myself. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov