Comment 13 for bug 24261

Message-ID: <20051020120238.GC2931@thinkpad>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:02:38 +0200
From: Ralf Stubner <email address hidden>
To: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: Florent Rougon <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

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:40 +0200, Frank K=FCster wrote:
> mfw was the name of the mf binary with X11 support, mf-nowin is the nam=
e
> without. In 2.0, /usr/bin/mf was a symlink to /usr/bin/mfw, now it the
> binary itself is called /usr/bin/mf.
>=20
> I think this is an upstream change,=20

Yes, this is an upstream change.=20
teTeX 2.0.2 compilde from source has
      mf -> mfw
      mf-nowin
      mfw
teTeX 3.0 compiled from source has
      mf
      mf-nowin

> 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

ACK

cheerio
ralf