Bug#346326: tetex-bin: postinst fails -- dvips35.map not found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

severity 346326 normal
retitle 346326 Add check for correct setting of TEXMF
reassign 346326 tex-common
thanks

Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

>> There is no mention of /usr/share/texmf-tetex at all here.
>
> Thanks. I've got the hint. It was the old problem, that I update the
> config after package installation, which causes tetex-extra got installed
> with the old config.

We should check for that, and bail out with an understandable error
message. 

> Did you ever discuss this issue in debian-devel?

Yes, and it's clear that it's not a bug to fail if the local admin
refuses to update the configuration - just as it is not a bug if the
local admin changes their configuration to a non-working setting without
an upgrade.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer