Bug#63029: error in tetex-extra

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Richard P. Groenewegen writes:
 > > What did you do, when dpkg prompted you for the changed language.dat
 > > file? Did you accept the new version or merge the changes in your old
 > > file? There should be a line 
 > 
 > I honestly think that I wasn't prompted, or otherwise it didn't make a
 > big impression.
 > 
 > > french          fr19998t.tex
 > 
 > Hmm, mine is a little bit different:
 > ; grep french /etc/texmf/language.dat
 > french          frhyph.tex frhyphex.tex %
 > 
 > BTW, I tried reinstalling tetex-extra by removing it and installing it
 > again.  In this case I'm not prompted for any questions and I get the
 > same errors during the install.
 > I also tried reinstalling basically everything TeX-related, again
 > yielding the same errors in tetex-extra.

Did you remove or purge the tetex-base? If you purged it, you should
have a new /etc/texmf/language.dat.

Please compare /etc/texmf/language.dat, /etc/texmf/language.dat-dpkg.*

Christoph