Bug#195683: tetex-bin 2.0.2-4 failed to preconfigure

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@prism.uvsq.fr>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-3
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable

Today, the upgrading of tetex-bin 2.0.2-4 has failed:

[...]
:-! Use automatic generation of texmf.cnf with update-texmf? [no] yes
[...]
:-! Use automatic generation of fmtutil.cnf with update-fmtutil? [no] yes
[...]
:-! Use automatic generation of updmap.cfg with update-updmap? [no] yes

tetex-bin failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
(Reading database ... 62605 files and directories currently installed.)
[...]
Preparing to replace tetex-bin 2.0.2-3 (using .../tetex-bin_2.0.2-4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_2.0.2-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
[...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eminescu 2.4.20-1-686 #1 Sat Mar 22 13:16:21 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.35     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.5.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                          1.10.10    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                            0.2-20     The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:3.3-2    GCC support library
pn  libkpathsea3                             Not found.
ii  libpng12-0                    1.2.5.0-3  PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++5                    1:3.3-2    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwww-ssl0 [libwww0]         5.4.0-6    The W3C-WWW library (SSL support)
ii  libxaw7                       4.2.1-6    X Athena widget set library
ii  perl                          5.8.0-17   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  t1lib1                        1.3.1-1    Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base                    2.0.2-3    basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-6    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-11 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: british, romanian
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
* tetex-bin/texmf: true