[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#261364: Accepted lyx 1.3.4-2 (i386 source all)

[Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer]

Actually,

What that tells me is that like KDE Debian is wanting to centralize all 
configuration files, in this case, texmf.cnf under a directory child to 
that of /etc.  That makes sense.  And that is not what I'm noting.

I'm making note that the /usr/lib has most often been reserved for 
applicaiton server libraries, low-level system libraries and X-server 
libraries, or basically device driver libraries.  User space application 
specific configurations tend to be stored under 
/usr/share/userApplication or /etc/userApplication/.

I'm not trying to knock someone for violating some unknown known in the 
Debian world.  I'm just pointing out that either testing was not done on 
these packages going from 1.3.4-1 to 1.3.4-2 or that builds were done on 
a none standard Sid installation, or that perhaps someone thought the 
postinstall.sh check in this directory was necessary now, but hasn't 
been up until this point.

Note: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf is just a symlink back to 
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.  Same with /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf. Also, 
/usr/share/tetex-bin/texmf.cnf is just the default distribution location 
for texmf.cnf.  So we actually just have one real location which 
texmf.cnf is managed: /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.

Sorry to point out that the postinstall didn't go smoothly but isn't 
that what reporting flaws is all about?

-Marc J. Driftmeyer

P.S. I maintained the CC: to bug so as not to lose any relevant dialogue. 

Erinn Clark wrote:

>Hi Marc,
>
>* Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer <mjd@reanimality.com> [2004:07:26 01:01 -0700]: 
>  
>
>>Who built the debs?
>>    
>>
>
>Pascal Hakim.
>
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>
>>Here is why I ask:
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>>>Setting up lyx-common (1.3.4-2) ...
>>>grep: /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: No such file or directory
>>>Running update-lyxrc... done
>>>      
>>>
>>It should be /usr/share/texmf  since that is where TeX installs itself.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, really, texmf.cnf can be found in several places:
>
>/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
>/usr/share/tetex-bin/texmf.cnf
>/var/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
>If you look in debian/packages in the source, it has:
>
>Postinst: sh
> if [ -e /usr/bin/texconfig ] && fgrep -q TEXMFMAIN
> /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf; then
>       /usr/bin/texhash
> fi
> echo -n "Running update-lyxrc... "
>	 
>However, this is a yada remnant, AFAIK, and we're redoing the build system
>for the next upload which should happen in two weeks or so. We had an RC
>bug that needed to be closed, so we uploaded. This postinst stuff already
>existed, though, so this shouldn't be anything new. It won't exist on the
>next upload.
>
>Thanks,
>Erinn
>
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