Bug#136051: tetex-bin: fmtutil is not robust (mktexupd seg faults)

[frank@debian.org (Frank Küster)]

Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net> wrote on Wed, 27 Feb 2002:

> Appended is the output of the tetex-bin postinst from a recent upgrade
> in "testing".  Although mktexupd seg faulted, fmtutil completed
> successfully.  This is probably a bug in fmtutil.  Shell scripts should
> usually have "set -e" if they want to be robust (though I didn't test
> fmtutil with "set -e", so something else may break if you do this).

It will break, unfortunately. In order to make all scripts in tetex run
with set -e, a lot of work is needed - and Thomas Esser, the upstream
author doesn't put priority on this. I will contact him again when I
think it's a good moment (currently it isn't, because he's preparing a
new upstream release). But I guess it will require that somebody else
does it and submits the patches.

Thank you for your interest in the tetex packages (and our apologies for
not answering for sooo long),

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