tex-common (4.01) experimental; urgency=low * moving files from /usr/share/doc/texmf to /usr/share/texmf/doc when using dh_installtex: - please Build-depend on tex-common (>= 4.01) - install the files in /usr/share/texmf/doc no further steps are necessary, dh_installtex automatically adds the necessary dependencies (either >= 4 if /usr/share/texmf/doc is present in the package, otherwise >= 3) -- Norbert Preining Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:09:07 +0900 tex-common (4.00) experimental; urgency=low * documentation file changes: the link from /usr/share/texmf/doc to /usr/share/doc/texmf is dropped. That means that the documentation of packages putting them into /usr/share/doc/texmf will not be found by texdoc anymore. Package should be rebuild with an added dependency on tex-common (>= 4~) and put documentation to be found by texdoc into /usr/share/texmf/doc (according to TDS standard), and other docs into /usr/share/doc/$package, but nothing into /usr/share/doc/texmf -- Norbert Preining Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:43:14 +0900 tex-common (3.7) unstable; urgency=low * updmap file handling changed For users: If you are using PostScript fonts that are not packaged for Debian, some changes have been done: updmap now reads *all* updmap.cfg files it finds. That means, the easiest way to activate local fonts (in TEXMFLOCAL) by putting the respective map lines into /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg, and call updmap-sys once (as root). If you have fonts in your home directory you want to activate, paralleling the above you put the respective map line into $HOME/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg and call updmap (as user). But be reminded that you have to do that everytime system fonts have changed (there is no automatic syncronization between user specific and system wide updmap(-sys) generated files). For developers: Since version 3 of tex-common, which conincides and requires TeX Live 2011 and upward, updmap now behaves differently then before: It reads *all* available updmap.cfg files. That means that the handling of updmap.d snippets in /etc/texmf/updmap.d has changed. Packages rebuild with tex-common >= 3 will not install anything in this directory. Old, especially Debian external, font packages that still use the old (updmap.d) mechanism are (as of 3.7) still supported, but with warnings. Please rebuild these packages with a newer tex-common. -- Norbert Preining Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:53:27 +0900 tex-common (1.8) unstable; urgency=low * Manually reinstalling removed conffiles Due to a bug in the postrm script of tetex-base in etch, purging this package removes essential configuration files of texlive packages. tex-common is also affected, because tetex-base removed /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. This file isn't strictly needed, but it is very much recommended that you reinstall it. You can find a copy in /usr/share/tex-common/. -- Frank Küster Thu, 31 May 2007 10:32:21 +0200 tex-common (1.4) unstable; urgency=low * Filename database in $TEXMFHOME is no longer created and updated The ls-R filename database in $TEXMFHOME, $HOME/texmf, is no longer created in new installs, and also not updated by default. This makes sense unless you have a very large number of files installed in that tree. However, you MUST remove the old file $HOME/texmf/ls-R in order to allow TeX to find new files in that hierarchy! * Backwards compatibility hacks dropped In etch, some tools and search paths still supported obsolete paths and invocations. These backwards compatibility hacks, most notably to the *-sys tools and font search paths, have now been dropped. * The parse-first-line feature is now enabled by default, in order to allow MetaPost to call TeX with different formats. Only when invoked as "teX" it is disabled to remain Knuth-compatible. -- Frank Küster Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:42:06 +0200 tex-common (0.26) unstable; urgency=low * New font cache handling The font cache handling has been reworked completely. By default, a separate font cache is kept for each user. If you want to re-enable site-wide caching, see the instructions in README.Debian. On systems where $HOME is not writable, fonts will be temporarily cached in /tmp/texfonts. * Breakage with TeXLive The texlive packages as of version 2005-2 do not automatically create a user's TEXMFVAR directory for font caching. This might break document processing in some configurations. Simply create the directory $HOME/.texmf-var manually to fix this. -- Frank Küster Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:25:26 +0200