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The Debian TeX sub-policy

Abstract

This document provides a set of rules for the packaging of applications, fonts and input files related to TeX within the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2004-2006 Frank Küster, Richard Lewis, Norbert Preining, Ralf Stubner, Florent Rougon

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian distribution or on the World Wide Web at The GNU General Public Licence. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Contents

• 1 About this document
• 2 Terms and Definitions
• 3 TeX packages for the impatient
• 4 File Placement
  • 4.1 File searching and libkpathsea / libkpse
  • 4.2 Directory trees
  • 4.3 Generated files
  • 4.4 Filenames and installation of alternative files
  • 4.5 Documentation
• 5 Configuration
  • 5.1 Configuration files
  • 5.2 Configuration update programs
  • 5.3 Best practices for packages that build-depend on the TeX system
  • 5.4 Command execution and format files
  • 5.5 The Dpkg Post-Invoke Mechanism
• A Sample code
  • A.1 Sample code for font packages

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The Debian TeX sub-policy