Bug#136051: tetex-bin: fmtutil is not robust (mktexupd seg faults)
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:15:32PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> are you the one that submitted this bug long ago?
You found me. Congratulations on your detective work. :-)
> 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.
Oh well. I don't use tex much these days, and I don't think I ever ran
into that problem again (as I said, it was likely a hardware glitch), so
it's probably a low priority. Thanks for checking up on this!
Andrew
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