tex-common | Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian | Mehr ...
This package contains a number of scripts and common configuration files that are needed to install a TeX System, either teTeX or TeX-Live. . It also contains some files used when creating tetex packages from the Debian source packages, and which allow a synchronisation between the two source packages of teTeX (tetex-base and tetex-bin) and tex-live.
