Bug#328749: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#328749: package installation fails with teTeX 3.0

[Frank Küster]

Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo at debian.org> wrote:

> Frank K??ster (frank at debian.org) wrote:
>> Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo at debian.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm done with all the fixes but when installing I'm getting the following
>> > message:
>> >
>> >     Warning: fmtutil is being run as root; fmtutil-sys should probably be
>> >     used instead.  If this is done by a Debian package upon installation,
>> >     upgrade, or removal, please file a bug against that package.
>> >
>> > How do we handle this?
>> 
>> This is exactly the warning about the backward compatibility hack that
>> we introduced.  Just ignore it for the time being, but keep in mind that
>> as soon as tetex-3.0 enters testing, you should switch from fmtutil to
>> fmtutil-sys. 
>
> Gotcha.
>
> I've got some more questions regarding xmltex and the way it's packaged for
> Debian, but I'll get back to you with those later.

Have you read the Debian TeX Policy draft, which is included in the
tex-common package?

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer