Bug#318372: obscure xdvi font warning

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

reassign 318372 tetex-base
retitle 318372 Obsolete map files in /etc/texmf/dvips not removed during upgrade
thanks

I'm very sorry that nobody among the people processing upgrade reports
has communicated this to the TeX Task Force.  In fact this bug exists in
sarge, but it has been fixed in etch.  At least in a way:  The duplicate
files are still there, but they are no longer used.

Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> as far as I can see, I've had the same problem here. Same error message,
> same cure: 
>
> Victor Munoz:
>> My solution was to delete  /etc/texmf/dvips/bsr-interpolated.map

That's a correct solution, but the problem shouldn't have appeared in
the first place.

>> , run
>> updmap again, and then I got a clean ps2pk.map. Now xdvi does not complain.
>
> Actually this error has shown up for some time on this system, but I didn't
> bother since everything seemed to be working.  However, it's now about half a
> year that I upraded from Woody to Sarge, and I don't *think* that started with
> the upgrade.  

I do think that it should have started with the upgrade.  The issue is
documented in (sarge's) tetex-base's README.Debian, section "2. Changes
in handling of map files (unneeded files in /etc/texmf/dvips)"

Although the warning will dissappear when upgrading to etch, even if the
files have not been removed as described in the README, I think we
better clean them up.  And we already have code for this in the package,
but I just found that it doesn't work.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)