Bug#357289: tetex-bin: Configuration fails - package won't install

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> update-fmtutil tries to generate that file, it should either
>
> - write to the destination of the link, or
>
> - simply replace the symlink by a real file, or
>
> - stop with an error, 
>
> instead of doing nothing as it currently does.
>
> I think I'm going to change it so that it gives an error (it'd be
> surprising if local customization in /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf suddenly
> stopped working).

After looking at the script, I think it's on purpose to allow a
symlink.  I've changed the note (skipped when called with --quiet) to a
warning, but kept the exitcode at 0.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)