The Debian TeX sub-policy
Footnotes

1

This is, for example, required to be able to adapt dependencies of metapackages according to the users' needs.

2

Per default, this tree is located in the world-writeable directory /tmp/texfonts/, in order to allow automatic package builds to work without user directories. On multi user systems, the admin might want to change this to a persistent directory and set up proper permissions

3

A wishlist bug on the shadowing package, blocked by an other wishlist bug on the basic TeX package, can help tracking these issues.

4

This allows users to say texdoc packagename directly. Otherwise they will first have to find the right command line (e.g. texdoc packagename/user.dvi) using texdoc -s keyword

5

Note that in texmf.cnf, as well as in the sequence of multiple texmf.cnf files that are read, earlier entries override later ones.


The Debian TeX sub-policy

2015-09-03 (incomplete)

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