Why I can't upload tetex-bin_2.0.2-12

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi all,

we should upload tetex-bin_2.0.2-12. But I currently cannot do
it. There's some things that should be done before release (see below),
including testing, but I am experiencing very strange behavior on my
computer:

I can install Adrian Bunk's backports succesfully after a purge, but
when I run dpkg-reconfigure or a standalone fmtutil --all, I get strange
error messages[1]. The same when I install one of my own compiled
packages. Therefore I currently cannot do proper testing. 

In case somebody else has time, here are the issues I know of:

- It seems the changes to the IFS setting that I made need to be
  reverted. With the postinst from CVS I got the error message

  fmtutil --all: no such command (or the like) presumably because it
  didn't do word splitting at the whitespace between fmtutil and --all. 

- We need to call "ucf --purge /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf" in postrm upon
  purge (or rather purge_ucf_file). Otherwise no texmf.cnf will be
  generated if somebody installs after a purge, because the (identical)
  old file ist still registered.

Regards, Frank


[1] for "tex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini":

===========================================
Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
===========================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>)
! I can't find file `use'.
<to be read again> 
                   \relax 
l.319   \repeat
               
Please type another input file name: 



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