Bug#267886: tetex-extra: the package doesn't install cleanly. fmtutil error

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

>+      sed 's@^\(For use with ngerman\)@\% \1@' < $CUR_LDAT > $tempfile

I have yet written something similar - why do you escape the %?

Furthermore, I'd prefer to also catch lines where the user has added a
space or anything else before the "For", which gives:

+#
+# 2.0.2-20, 2004-08-25
+# There's one more fix to do: In some tetex-base version, we accidently 
+# shipped language.dflt with a missing comment sign. If this is still 
+# in language.dat, we have to fix this.
[...]
+  # now look for the missing comment sign
+  weird_pattern="For use with ngerman"
+  if grep "$weird_pattern" $CUR_LDAT | grep -v ^% >/dev/null; then
+    # this line is lacking the comment sign
+    tempfile=`mktemp`
+    sed -e "s/^\(.*$weird_pattern\)/% \1/" $CUR_LDAT > $tempfile
+    chown --reference=$CUR_LDAT $tempfile
+    chmod --reference=$CUR_LDAT $tempfile
+    mv $tempfile $CUR_LDAT
+  fi
+
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie