Bug#267299: installation of tetex-base fails
severity 267299 important
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Martin Ammermueller <martin.ammermueller@bnro.de> wrote:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2b-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> installation of tetex-base fails with the following errors
>
> --------snip----------
> Richte tetex-base ein (2.0.2b-1) ...
[...]
> ###############################################################################
>
> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `pdfetex -ini -jobname=mptopdf -progname=mptopdf mptopdf.tex' failed
>
> fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
> /tmp/tetex-base.postinst.XXaF3obB
> Please include this file if you report a bug.
> ---------snap-----------
>
> this prevents also tetex-bin, tetex-doc and tetex-extra from being
> installed.
Until we get the file that unfortunately wasn't attached (or didn't get
through), we cannot find out what is going on. We know, however, that it
is only a single format that fails, and mptopdf is not the most commonly
used. For more than 90 % of our users it it not necessary; when also
counting buildd's and programs using (pdf)LaTeX for their output, I'd
even say more thatn 98%.
On the other hand, we have yet decided for tetex-bin that failure to
generate some formats should not make the whole postinst fail. I just
had not ported this to tetex-base and tetex-extra.
I have now done this, and the effect will be that with the next version
of tetex-base the postinst will not fail if the format generation did
not work. This case is just what it was intended for: The vast majority
of the package's function is restored, and we can still investigate the
real error.
Once 2.0.2b-2 has hit the archives, you can upgrade your package and get
a (basically) working teTeX. Therefore I am lowering the severity of
this bug, now that the package is in Incoming.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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