Bug#170592: tetex-base: improperly handling /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Bug#170592: tetex-base: improperly handling /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:09:37 +0900 (JST)

> From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#170592: tetex-base: improperly handling /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink
> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:22:42 +0000
> 
> > Seems as though this package provides the /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink
> > in the package, but then it's also handled in the postinst or
> > something?  I don't seem to have this link at all on my system now....
> 
> Me neither, but it seemed postinst or rules seemed
> the same as before, at least basically.
> 
> I'll check more but if someone can guess the reason
> please let me know.

In rules, there is a line

(cd debian/tmp/usr/share/texmf; ln -s ../doc/texmf doc)

and in postinst, there are lines

if [ ! -e /usr/share/texmf/doc ]
    then
        ln -s /usr/share/doc/texmf /usr/share/texmf/doc
    fi

so I cann't imagine what is wrong...

I tested with modified postinst (-e to -L)

if [ ! -L /usr/share/texmf/doc ]
    then
        ln -s /usr/share/doc/texmf /usr/share/texmf/doc
    fi

then it worked fine for me but it was only one test
with one of my Debian systems.

# it seemed a symlink of /usr/share/texmf/web2c also
# lost from time to time and it is almost in the same
# situation.  Is this some problem of dpkg or something ?

Is there any idea ?

Best regards,			2002/11/29

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