Bug#197954: tetex-base: Upgrade failure in testing with removal of pxfonts (and description of work around)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

severity 197954 grave
merge 197954 197870
thanks

On 19.06.03 Mike Dornberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:53:06PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

I've bounced you message into your bug, to get an public discussion.

> > Ist this the same as #197870? Should we merge both? Although I
> > don't know in the moment how to solve it.
> 
> yes I think it is the same. I didn't look at the bugs of tetex-bin.
> 
> I think modifying pxfonts.prerm in tetex-base.preinst isn't an
> option...
> 
So do I. How about leaving that bug at pxfonts and upload a new
version of it into stable, so it will be installed during 3.0r2? Of
course that won't help people, who don't update their system very
often (like me :-)).

> What about placing an empty /etc/texmf/dvips/updmap by the
> tetex-base scripts maybe with a comment like "This is just here for
> smooth upgrading of ..."? This would be something like a noop in
> the code snippet mentioned in #197870.
> 
So, that must be done during preinst of tetex-base? In #197870 Daniel
says, that updmap is removed during preconfiguration. This step is
done before anything else (like preinst) is running, right? So this
could be an option...
Any else opinions out there?

H.
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