Comment 26 for bug 36145

Martin Pitt says the latest Debian package fixes the problem, so the fix is already known. I don't see the problem with it being uploaded to dapper-updates. If the new version is released soon after Dapper, everybody who installs tetex will get the fixed version, since the dapper-updates repository is enabled by default. Even otherwise, the fix will automatically be downloaded, so it's not really an issue.

I'm even hopeful it'll be fixed post-RC, since it isn't on the CD, but I don't know if there are any technical problems with that.