Bug#267299: Installation of tetex-base (2.0.2b-3) fails.

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 29.08.04 Maciej A. Patelczyk (maf@rudy.who.vectranet.pl) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
>> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
> <snip>
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
>> frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>)
>> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex
>> German Traditional Hyphenation Patterns `dehypht' Version 3.2a <1999/03/03>
>> (Formerly known under the name `ghyph31' and `ghyphen'.))
>> ! I can't find file `use'.
>> <to be read again> 
>>                    \relax 
>> l.319   \repeat
>>                
>> Please type another input file name: 
>> ! Emergency stop.
>> <to be read again> 
>>                    \relax 
>> l.319   \repeat
>>                
>> No pages of output.
>> Transcript written on latex.log.
>> 
> #267886. Bug has been fixed. We're on the way to create a fix in the
> postin of tetex-bin for /etc/texmf/langauge.dat.

Hm. There is yet a fix in tetex-bin's postinst, although a problematic
one. But it _should_ fix this bug.

Maciej, which version of tetex-bin had you installed, or do you have
installed while you can reproduce the bug? In you first message, you
wrote:

>> Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
>> ii  dpkg             1.10.23                 Package maintenance system for Deb
>> ii  gsfonts          8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre35-1 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
>> pn  tetex-bin                                Not found.
>> ii  ucf              1.08                    Update Configuration File: preserv

But this cannot have been true at the moment the bug occured, because
then it would not even have tried to generate those formats.

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