Bug#157988: passivetex 1.18-0.1 fails in postinst
Hi Yann,
two years ago you reported a bug against tetex-base to the Debian
Bugtracking system. After some initial investigations, nobody followed
the problem any more. Take the apologies of the tetex maintainer team
for this.
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> package: tetex-base
> version: 1.0.2+20011202-3
> severity: serious
>
> Running the following command:
>
> # /usr/bin/fmtutil --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf --all
>
> ... finishes with:
>
> This is a summary of all failed' messages:
> tex -ini -fmt=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
> etex -ini -efmt=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
> pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed
> pdftex -ini -fmt=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed
> pdfetex -ini -efmt=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed
> omega -ini -fmt=omega -progname=omega omega.ini' failed
>
>
> Unfortunately that prevents many tex-related packages to install cleanly.
>
> The failed logs (see below) all mention they don't find 'frhyphex.tex'.
> Searching for something similar, I find by chance:
>
> # dpkg -S frhyph
> tetex-base: /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
It was subsequently found out that your language.dat file had been
messed up by something (or even by you), but the cause could not be
found.
Meanwhile, we have changed the handling of language.dat subtantially. It
is not even shipped with tetex-base any more, but generated by the
postinst script.
Probably it doesn't make much sense to try to find the cause now (except
if you keep a backup from that time). If you agree, I would like to ask
you to close the bug, by sending mail to 157988-done@bugs.debian.org.
Thank you,
Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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