[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: dvipost (hopefully) ready for Debian

[Per Olofsson]

Sven Hoexter:
> [Hope it's ok to continue this thread only on the pkg mailinglist]

Absolutely.

> Thanks. It would've been cool to sort out the other issue first
> but hm ok now it's in new and I'll try to concentrate on Lyx
> itself.

There are no big issues with the package now.

> > * You probably shouldn't call "/usr/bin/texhash" with an absolute
> >   path. Just call "texhash" instead.
> Similar scripts vary to use mktexlsr oder texhash but always with
> an absolute path.

Well, I think they're wrong. I don't see the reason why one wants to
hardcode the path. See for example joeyh's blog entry:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/absolute_paths_absolute_bad_idea.html

But it's no big deal.

> I wondered about that and now found a solution after re-reading some
> parts of the policy[1] and taking a look at the post* scripts from
> tetex-frogg.
> The post* scripts are called for several things and you can (or
> should) select from the argument if you like to run the script or not.

Yes, that is correct.

> Well dvipost is not mandatory, I'd like to put dvipost in the recommends
> because it's "only" needed for change tracking in the output.

OK, good.

> I've kind of a todo list in my wiki:
> http://sven.stormbind.net/ispwiki/index.php/Privat/LyxDebianPkgGroup
> Maybe we should move it to wiki.d.o or use the alioth Task-Manager/Bugtracker.

Good idea! Let's use wiki.d.o, I've copied the page to
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgLyx (and modified it some).

-- 
Pelle