Bug#195723: tetex-bin: postinstall script dies, making tetex-bin uninstallable

["Matei Conovici" <cmatei@profis.ro>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Tags: sid



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux ork 2.4.20 #4 Wed Apr 2 08:44:24 EEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.37     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                         2.3.1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:3.3-2    GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea3                  2.0.2-4    shared libkpathsea for teTeX
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  libwww0                       5.4.0-6    The W3C WWW library
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                    2.0.2-4    basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-6    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-12 compression library - runtime

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


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I've edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst and added a "set -x"
at the beginning. Results below:

ork:~# dpkg -D2 --configure tetex-bin
Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-4) ...
D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst ( )
+ '[' configure '!=' configure ']'
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst configure 1.0.7+20011202-8
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tetex-bin


Best regards,

Matei