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

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

> > 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
> > 
> I'm not sure, if it is helpful. Could you please leave that set -x
> there and then just call
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst configure
> ? This is just a wild guess. I'm afraid it doesn't bring us anything
> new.

I'll be out of town this week, I will look into this on monday. Not
sure the problem was with tetex-bin, after all, it could have been
debconf.

2.0.2-4.1 installed just fine.

> H., clueless

Matei