Bug#686071: tex-common: trigger break debconf when reconfiguring a (external) latex package

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

reassign 686071 debconf
thanks

Hi Vincent,

On Di, 28 Aug 2012, Vincent Danjean wrote:
>   I'm reporting this bug against tex-common, but perhaps it applies to debconf
> itself. Please, reassign if needed.

Looks like ... we didn't change anything since ages ..

I can only assume that the change  in 1.5.45 made this:
debconf (1.5.45) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Programs translations ]
  * German updated.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * dpkg-reconfigure: Fix dpkg-query parsing when detecting which triggers
    are pending (LP: #1018884).

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:57:38 +0100


But I leave it to the debconf maintainers to decided on that.

In case our (tex-common) usage is wrong, please reassign.

>   I'm hitting this bug when I try to reconfigure latex-make (whole debian/rules
> call "dh_installtex" without any argument)

Actually no relation to dh_installtex whatsoever ... from your set -x
run:

> + trigger=texmf-lsr
> + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> + [ ! 1 ]
> + [ -z  ]
> + exec
> + [  ]
> + exec
> + DEBCONF_REDIR=1
> + export DEBCONF_REDIR
> + db_version 2.0
> + _db_cmd VERSION 2.0
> + _db_internal_IFS= 	
> 
> + IFS= 
> + printf %s\n VERSION 2.0
> VERSION 2.0
> + IFS= 	
> 
> + IFS=
>  read -r _db_internal_line
> ^Cdpkg: erreur de traitement de tex-common (--configure) :
>  interruption du sous-processus script post-installation installé
> Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
>  tex-common

It seems that this is a problem with debconf, as in the postinst script ther
is only
	. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
	db_version 2.0
and it seems that this is broken now, as normal dpkg calls, even with
triggers, work without problems. Only calls to
	dpkg-reconfigure
break.

debconf maintainers???

Best wishes

Norbert
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