Bug#116131: tetex-bin: dpkg --configure tetex-bin fails

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

Paolo Redaelli writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20001218-6
 > Severity: important
 > 
 > During the configuration of the package (or tetex-base, I'm not able to solve it) there-s a message like this:
 > 
 > teTeX setup utility
 > 
 > Could not find app-default file for xdvi.
 > 
 > The program will exit now.
 > 
 > 
 > After this every tetex package and every package that depends on tetex is NOT upgraded.
 > Further, there is not xdvi. I've managed it until now using xdvi.real
 > 

 > Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
 > ii  debianutils            1.15              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
 > ii  dpkg                   1.9.17            Package maintenance system for Deb
 > ii  ed                     0.2-19            The classic unix line editor
 > ii  libc6                  2.2.4-3           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
 > ii  libkpathsea3           1.0.7+20001218-6  shared libkpathsea for teTeX
 > ii  libpng2                1.0.12-2          PNG library - runtime
 > ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010902 The GNU stdc++ library
 > ii  libtiff3g              3.5.5-6           Tag Image File Format library
 > ii  libwww0                5.3.2-5           The W3C-WWW library.
 > ii  libxaw7                4.1.0-7           X Athena widget set library
 > ii  perl-base              5.6.1-5           The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
 > pn  tetex-base (>= 1.0-5)                    Not found.
 > ii  xlibs                  4.1.0-7           X Window System client libraries
 > ii  zlib1g                 1:1.1.3-16        compression library - runtime

Why don't you have tetex-base installed, although tetex-bin depends on
it?

Christoph