Re: Installation problem on Debian Sarge: install-data

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:10:06PM +0200, Felix Gatzemeier wrote:
> 
>>I have installed teTeX 3.0 from the distribution on a Debian system with 
>>up-to-date packges from the 'testing' branch.  In this configuration, 
>>teTeX's install-info conflicts with install-info from the dpkg package. 
>> Of the latter, I have version 1.10.27 installed, but the problem may 
>>be older.  Debian's install-info accepts a -description="text" option, 
>>which teTeX's does not know about.  This blocks package management if 
>>the teTeX binary happens to be in root's path.
>>...
> 
> install-info is among the programs not installed by the Debian teTeX 
> packages.

I expected this kind of issues to be resolved there.  I was just hoping 
that this information helps somewhere upstream.

 > The Debian packages already handle such Debian specific
> issues. Why don't you use the teTeX 3.0 packages from Debian 
> experimental?

(a) I find life with "testing" exciting enough (I would have loved to 
stick with "stable", but that was way too old).  And I have run a mixed 
installation for a while, which was not very comfy.

(b) I needed the kpathsearch header files to compile the LCDF TypeTools, 
which I need to convert OpenType fonts (the improved integration with 
teTeX is, btw, one of the great things about teTeX 3 I noticed).  I 
didn't find any tetex-dev or similar packages for the testing 
distribution, so I decided to install teTeX directly - as I have done, 
over the years, since some 0.9 releases, so that was not such a daring 
thing to do.

Greetings,
Felix