Bug#157988: passivetex 1.18-0.1 fails in postinst

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"YD" == Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>


    YD> Running the following command:

    YD> # /usr/bin/fmtutil --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf --all

    YD> ... finishes with:

    YD> This is a summary of all failed' messages [...]

    YD> The failed logs (see below) all mention they don't find
    YD> 'frhyphex.tex'.  Searching for something similar, I find
    YD> by chance:

    YD> # dpkg -S frhyph tetex-base:
    YD> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex

    YD> Typo somewhere ?

Probably not, although it's not a file we ship (or that's in our
CVS).


    YD> # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list | \
    YD>   xargs grep frhyphex 2>/dev/null

    YD> /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/language.dat:
    YD>    %french         frhyph.tex afrhyphex.tex
    YD> /etc/texmf/language.dat:
    YD>    french          frhyph.tex frhyphex.tex
    YD> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat:
    YD>    french         frhyph.tex frhyphex.tex

    YD> Hm.  Commenting out frhyphex.tex in
    YD> /etc/texmf/language.dat allows things to finish smoothly.

Your /etc/texmf/language.dat file doesn't match mine.  In fact, I
don't think *any* of your language.dat files match the ones I have
on my system.

My /etc/texmf/language.dat, which is the same as
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat (on my system,
the latter is a symlink to the former) has a line for French that
doesn't include the frhyphex reference.  The only ``*language*''
file I can find on my system that *does* reference frhyphex.tex is
the language.dat for platex, which is in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/language.dat on my system.

Are you sure that passivetex (I'm not familiar with this package)
isn't overwriting configuration files in tetex-base?  Could you
have copied the platex language.dat file over
/etc/texmf/language.dat at some point?

Do you have a /etc/texmf/language.dat.dpkg-dist file that doesn't
contain the frhyphex.tex reference?

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