Bug#235401: tetex-bin: Fails to install in chroot

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Based on some of the hints I saw, I was able to reproduce it in a
> standard pbuilder chroot by first executing "apt-get --purge remove
> apt-utils", then "apt-get install tetex-{bin|extra}".  I use pbuilder
> chroots with the non-build-essential packages pruned from them,
> including apt-utils, which I guess is why the buildd's and I were
> seeing this bug but you couldn't reproduce it.
>
> Let me know if this still isn't enough information to reproduce the
> bug.

Grr, still cannot reproduce. Perhaps our systems don't agree on what is
a "standard pbuilder chroot". Could you give us a package list (dpkg -l
| grep ^ii)?

(Do you use a script for pbuilder to purge these packages?)

TIA, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie