Comment 12 for bug 24261

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:40:14 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: Florent Rougon <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Florian Cramer <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#334713: [Florian Cramer] Re: tetex-bin: package doesn't
 install because of missing mfw binary

Florent Rougon <email address hidden> wrote:

> Florent Rougon <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> The following:
>>
>> cnf: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>> mfw mfw - mf.ini
>>
>> As said, the error happens when I install tetex from scratch.
>
> Maybe you think it is from scratch, but actually isn't?=20

Yes, the entry in fmtutil.cnf that uses mfw must be either a local
change or (unlikely) from a buggy package.

> i.e., mfw does *not* appear in fmtutil.cnf.
>
> I don't know why (maybe this format is obsolete), but it explains why I
> don't get the error you reported.

mfw was the name of the mf binary with X11 support, mf-nowin is the name
without. In 2.0, /usr/bin/mf was a symlink to /usr/bin/mfw, now it the
binary itself is called /usr/bin/mf.

I think this is an upstream change, but restoring the old behavior
probably won't hurt anybody. We could also create the reverse symlink
(mfw -> mf), but then we get problems in case we want to split of a
tetex-bin-nowin package and want /usr/bin/mf to be managed with
update-alternatives.=20

Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer