Bug#612924: texlive-base: fails to upgrade: cannot stat `/usr/share/texlive-base/pdftexconfig.tex': No such file or directory

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base
> Version: 2009-11
> Severity: important
>
> Upgrade of texlive-base from 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2 to 2009-11 failed:
>
> | Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2 (using .../texlive-base_2009-11_all.deb) ...
> | Reinstalling deleted mandatory conffile pdftexconfig.tex
> | cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/texlive-base/pdftexconfig.tex': No such file or directory
> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2009-11_all.deb (--unpack):
> |  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

The preinst script looks for that file in the location where it will be
*after* unpacking texlive-base_2009-11.  At the point in time where it
is run, however, it is in texlive-bin.

A quick solution on the affected systems is to 

ln -s ../texlive-bin/pdftexconfig.tex /usr/share/texlive-base/

As package maintainers, we need to decide whether a fix for a bug that
only ever existed in unstable during lenny development and that is not
working properly upon lenny-->squeeze upgrade is worth being fixed
through stable-proposed-updates.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)