Bug#207786: tetex-base: upgrade problem with pxfonts: prerm misses /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 197954 tetex-base, pxfonts
reassign 207786 tetex-base, pxfonts
severity 207786 grave
merge 207786 197954
thanks

On 29.08.03 Michael Below (mbelow@antithese.de) wrote:

Hi,

> I just tried to upgrade tetex to the current testing version (2.x). This
> didn't work because I have pxfonts installed, and their pre-removal
> process wants to access updmap. now updmap doesn't exist anymore. This
> makes the pxfonts removal break, so the whole upgrade breaks. I think
> the new tetex-base package should handle this, as it is the package
> removing updmap and conflicting with pxfonts.
> 
> Michael
> 
> ~ $LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg -r pxfonts
> (Reading database ... 108437 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing pxfonts ...
> chmod: getting attributes of `/etc/texmf/dvips/updmap': No such file or
> directory
> dpkg: error processing pxfonts (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   pxfonts
>   
Bug is known: #197870 #197891 #197954 and still another one in
pxfonts. For any reason they are assigned to tetex-bin. I assign them
back to tetex-base and merge your one to these. I'll care about that
issue in the next few days.

H. 
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