Bug#61979: tetex-bin: tetex-bin fails in postinst process

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

Michael Piefel writes:
 > Sorry for having taken so long to answer.

Well, we could have answered *you* earlier if you would not have sent
your message only to 61979-quiet@bugs.debian.org

 > 
 > > My guess is that your /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf is broken.  What gives
 > >    fmtutil --missing
 > 
 > Isn't /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf part of tetex-bin? I didn't touch it. Anyway,
 > fmtutil --missing gives nothing after quite a while of thinking (on my
 > really slow machine).
 > To say it again, fmtutil will end much, much quicker when using `set -e',
 > namely with an exit status of 1 just after the test for sh5. Normally this
 > script is okay, but when it's executed with `set -e' it fails. Since `set
 > -e' is used in the installation scripts, they failed - silently.

The 'set -e' in the postinst script does not affect the fmtutil from
within, as you can test with:

(set -e; fmtutil || echo asdf)

So that is not your problem. Please try to find out, why really
fmtutil is exiting.

Christoph